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PAGE 

Introduction      ..........      vii 

List  of  Pedigrees xix 

What   is   to   be   performed   by  the  Heralds  at  their   going   in 

Visitation 1 

Somerset's  Warrant,  directed  to  the  Bailiff  of  the  Hundred  of 

Cudleston,    to    summon     the    Esquires     and     Gentlemen 

inhabiting  within  the  said  Hundred  to  appear  before  him  in 

order  to  the  enregistering  of  their  several  arms  and  descents         2 

Nomina  Nobilium  de  Com'  Stafford',  1583 3 

Warrant  of  Summons  against  such  as  contemptuously  refuse  to 

appear   upon  the   former  warrant,   to   make   their  further 

appearance  before  the  Earl  Marshal 11 

The  manner  of  the  Heralds'  Proclamation  for  the  disclaiming  of 

ignoble  persons  .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .12 

Names  of  those  who  were  disclaimed 14 

Lay  Subsidy  Roll  of  the  18th  of  Elizabeth,  a.d.  1576  ...  17 
Names  and  Arms  of  Staffordshire  Knights,  temp.  Edward  I.  .  20 
Anna  Nobilium  de  Com'  Stafford'  ex  libro  antiquo  in  Officio 

Armorum 21 

Arms  of  Staffordshire  Families  as  represented  in  the  gallery  at 

Theobald's 26 

Seal  of  the  Town  of  Stafford,  and  List  of  the  "  Companie  and 

Brotherhood,"  etc.,  of  the  said  town 27 


Seal  of  Lichfield,  with  similar  List 

Seal  of  Newcastle  under  Lyme,  with  similar  List 

The  doubtful  Arms  of  Staffordshire     . 

Pedigrees  (in  alphabetical  order) 

Notes  on  the  Pedigree  of  De  Wastineys 


.  28 
.  .  28 
.  29 
33  to  155 
.     156 


Index 163 


fintrotmrtton. 


The  Visitation  contained  in  the  following  pages  was  made  by- 
Robert  Glover,  Somerset  Herald,  as  deputy  to  his  father-in- 
law,  William  Flower,  Norroy  King  of  Arms. 

Glover,  who  was  made  Somerset  Herald  in  1571,  was  born 
at  Ashford  in  Kent  in  1543.  Erdeswick  styles  him  "  the 
only  sufficient  man  in  his  time  for  armorye  and  descents  in 
this  land,"  and  Sir  William  Dugdale  considered  him  "  the  best 
Herald  that  did  ever  belong  to  the  office."  So  high  was  his 
reputation  for  professional  skill  and  unwearied  attention,  that 
the  contemporary  provincial  Kings  of  Arms  sent  him  on  several 
occasions  to  visit  the  counties  in  their  marches  ;  and,  besides 
Staffordshire,  he  either  visited  or  assisted  in  the  Visitatioi]  s  of 
the  several  counties  of  Chester,  Derby,  Durham,  Lancaster, 
Northumberland,  and  York.  But  his  "  Somer  too  soone  set," 
for  he  died  at  the  early  age  of  forty-five  in  1588. 

The  manuscript  from  which  the  Visitation  here  printed  is 
transcribed  is  a  small  folio  in  the  William  Salt  Library,  which 
I  have  ventured  to  designate  "  The  Stukeley  MS." 

It  has  a  somewhat  curious  history.  Inside  the  cover  is 
written  in  a  large  bold  hand  : 

"  Wm  Stukeley. 

This  book  I  redeem'd 

from  a  shop  where 

it  was  to  be  used 

as  waste  paper, 

1756, 

and  giveu  to  Eabdley  Wilmot." 

This  is  the  handwriting  of  the  learned  antiquary  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Stukeley,  who  was  born  in  1687,  and  died  in  1765. 
On  the  flyleaf  is  the  autograph  of  "  John  Eardley  Wilmot, 
July  1811 ;"  and  inside  the  cover  are  pasted  two  armorial 
bookplates   of   the  Wilmot  family,   viz.,  "  Sir  John  Eardley 

b  2 


Vlll  INTRODUCTION. 

Wilmot,  Knt.,  London,"  and  "JohnEardley  Wilmot,  Berkswell 
Hall." 

From  the  Wilmots  the  manuscript  passed  into  the  posses- 
sion of  William  Hamper,  F.S.A.,  from  whose  representatives 
it  was  acquired  by  Mr.  Salt. 

By  whom  or  when  this  MS.  was  written  I  am  unable  to  say; 
but  a  pencil  note  by  Mr.  Hamper,  dated  1817,  states  that  it 
"  evidently  belonged    to  Win.  Booth,    of    Witton,  Esq.  (the 
friend    of   Dug-dale),  from  his  notes  in  various  parts  of  it." 
This  William   Booth    was  an  eminent  barrister  and  a  noted 
antiquary.     Dugdale,  in  his  "  Warwickshire,"  speaks  of  him  as 
"  a   gentleman    so   well    affected  to    antiquities    that  by  his 
judicious  observation  of  sundry  notable  things  concerning  this 
part  of  the  countie   (which  with  much  freenesse  he  hath  im- 
parted toward  this  present  work)  he  deserves  a  better  acknow- 
ledgment from  me  than  by  a  few  words  can  be  expressed." 
Hamper  ("  Life  of  Dugdale,"  p.  1 25)  states  that  he  had  retrieved 
a  few  of  Mr.  Booth's  collections  (this  very  MS.  being  no  doubt 
one  of  the  few),  but  that  he  had  sought  in  vain  for  one  of  his 
volumes,   entitled  "  Descents  of  some  gentlemen,  and  others 
our  neighbours,  in  and  about  Birmingham,  set  down  by  me 
William  Booth,  of  the  Middle  Temple,  London,  according  to 
the  best  intelligence  I   could  have  from  old  men,  and  from 
notes  and  papers  which  concern  others  in  our  study,  1641." 
Shaw,  the   historian  of    Staffordshire,  found  this  MS.  in  the 
possession  of  Erasmus  Darwin  of   Derby  in  1791,  and  from  it 
copied  the  (not  quite  accurate)  pedigree  of  Stamford  of  Perry 
Hall  given  in  his  second  volume,  p.  109.* 

The  original,  or  office  copy,  of  Glover's  Visitation  of  Staf- 
fordshire had  in  Dugdale's  time  "  long  been  purloined  from 
the  office."  But  Noblef  asserts  that  the  true  original,  "  written 
by  Somerset  at  the  time  of  the  Visitation,  and  signed  by  those 
gentlemen  who  gave  him  information  relative  to  their  families," 
is  in  the  library  of  Queen's  College,  Oxford. 

Noble's  work  has  been  described  by  a  competent  judge  as 
"  careless  and  inaccurate,"  and  he  himself  as    a  "  perpetual 

*  In  the  College  of  Arms  is  a  quarto  volume  of  pedigrees  in  the  handwriting  of 
Nicholas  Charles,  Lancaster  Herald,  with  additions  by  Mr.  Booth.  At  the 
beginning  is  written,  "  William  Booth  of  Witton  his  book,  1660." 

t  "  History  of  the  College  of  Arms,"  Appendix,  p.  xxxi. 


INTRODUCTION.  ix 

blunderer."  But  in  this  case  he  is  generally  allowed  to  be 
correct. 

The  MS.  to  which  he  refers  has  every  appearance  of  being 
the  original,  and  if  the  signatures*  are  not  genuine  they  are 
very  clever  imitations.  With  this  volume  the  Stukeley  MS. 
agrees  in  almost  every  particular.  But  in  order  to  perfect  his 
MS.  Mr.  Salt  caused  it  to  be  carefully  collated  with  the 
reputed  original;  several  missing  pedigrees  were  supplied,f 
and  all  variations  noted.  The  gentleman  employed  in  this 
work  was  Mr.  Thorpe,  who  speaks  of  the  Queen's  College  MS. 
as  "  Glover's  original  Visitation,  in  an  old  vellum  binding." 
Mr.  Thorpe's  notes  upon  this  and  several  other  manuscript 
copies  of  the  Visitation  are  in  the  William  Salt  Library,  and 
will  be  more  particularly  referred  to  in  the  sequel. 

The  first  entire  Visitation  ever  published  was  that  of 
Durham  taken  by  Flower  (assisted  by  Glover)  in  1575.  This  was 
issued  in  1820,  and  is  noticed  in  the  "  Gentleman's  Magazine  " 
for  that  year  (July,  p.  45).  The  reviewer  describes  it  as  "a 
perfect  novelty  in  the  annals  of  genealogical  literature."  For, 
says  he,  "  notwithstanding  that  several  copies  of  these  records 
are  extant  both  in  our  public  and  private  libraries,  they  have 
never  yet  been  made  accessible  through  the  medium  of  the 
press."  This  was  followed  in  the  same  year  by  the  Durham 
Visitation  of  1615  (of  which  only  50  copies  were  printed),  and 
by  the  Visitation  of  Middlesex  in  1663.  Since  then  a  goodly 
number  of  these  records  have  been  printed,  the  Harleian 
Society  alone  having  issued  sixteen  volumes,  which,  with  two 
exceptions,  are,  or  purport  to  be,  County  Visitations.  The 
Surtees  Society  has  issued  Tonge's  "  Visitation  of  the  Northern 
Counties  in  1530,"  and  Dugdale's  valuable  "Visitation  of 
Yorkshire  in  1665-6;"  and  the  Chetham  Society  has  placed  in 
the  hands  of  its  subscribers  four  Visitations  of  Lancashire.  In 
addition  to  these,  we  have  the  Visitations  of  Yorkshire  in  1584 

*  I  may  here  note  that  in  the  Stukeley  MS.  the  signatures  attached  to  the 
several  pedigrees  do  not  in  all  cases  agree  with  the  original.  For  example,  in  the 
former  MS.  the  Endesore  pedigree  is  signed  "  Richard  Endesore,"  and  that  of 
Wyrley  "John  Wyrley."  Mr.  Thorpe  has  noted  all  these  variations,  and  the 
several  signatures  here  printed  are  as  in  the  original. 

f  The  pedigrees  thus  supplied  are  Ashenhurst,  p.  35 ;  Aston,  p.  37 ;  Biddulph, 
p.  50 ;  Giffard,  p.  81 ;  Hawkes,  p.  97  ;  Himiett,  p.  99  ;  Noel  ("  ex  chartis  "),  p.  119 ; 
K-udyerd,  p.  126;  and  Somerford,  p.  131. 


X  INTRODUCTION. 

and  1612,  edited  by  Mr.  Joseph  Foster;  those  of  Suffolk  in 
1561,  1577,  and  1612,  edited  by  Mr.  Metcalfe;  and  several 
others. 

It  must,  however,  be  admitted  that  some  of  these  publica- 
tions, though  of  considerable  value  as  collections  of  county 
pedigrees,  are  not  precisely  what  they  claim  to  be.  They  are 
copied  as  a  rule  from  some  MS.  in  the  Harleian  Library, 
which,  though  purporting  to  be  a  Visitation  of  a  certain 
county  on  such  a  date,  often  contains  the  result  of  two  Visita- 
tions combined  and  amalgamated  ;  and  in  some  cases  is  so  full 
of  additions  and  continuations  by  "  other  hands  "  that  (to  use 
Wanley's  words)  "  it  is  no  easy  matter  to  shew  what  belongs 
to  the  Visitation  and  what  not."  On  the  other  hand  some  of 
these  MSS.  contain  but  a  selection  of  the  descents  given  in 
the  original,  and  these  but  mere  abstracts  or  outlines.  For 
example,  the  Harl.  MS.  6104  is  stated  to  contain  Dugdale's 
Visitations  of  Staffordshire  in  1663-4,  and  of  Derbyshire  in 
16G2-3  ;  but  a  comparison  of  the  MS.,  with  the  original  Visita- 
tions remaining  in  the  College  of  Arms,  will  reveal  innumerable 
errors  both  of  omission  and  commission.  And  yet  the  latter 
portion  of  this  MS.  has  been  recently  published  under  the  title 
of  "The  Visitation  of  Derbyshire,  taken  in  1662,  and  reviewed 
in  1663,  by  William  Dugdale,"  which,  with  every  respect  for 
its  learned  editor,  I  humbly  conceive  to  be  an  unfortunate 
mistake.  Again,  the  "Visitation  of  Lancashire  in  1664-5," 
published  by  the  Chetham  Society,  contains  towards  the  end 
much  matter  quite  foreign  to  the  Visitation.  The  pedigree  of 
Trafford,  for  instance,  ascends  to  Saxon  times,  whereas  in 
Dugdale's  original  it  goes  back  only  to  the  grandfather  of  the 
then  head  of  the  family.  This,  as  the  editor  of  a  recent  pub- 
lication of  the  Chetham  Society  points  out,  "  cannot  fail  to  be 
very  misleading,"  since  it  gives  the  sanction  of  the  great 
name  of  Dugdale  to  a  composition  in  which  he  had  no  hand. 

I  ought  perhaps  to  apologise  for  these  critical  remarks  as 
being  somewhat  out  of  place ;  but  I  have  made  them,  not  for 
the  purpose  of  unkindly  criticising  these  valuable  publications, 
but  to  draw  attention  to  what  I  have  already  ventured  to  call 
an  unfortunate  mistake,  and  more  especially  to  explain  why, 
though  there  are  numerous  manuscripts  in  existence  by  the 


INTRODUCTION.  xi 

aid  of  which  many  of  the  pedigrees  contained  in  the  following 
pages  might  be  amplified  and  extended,  I  have,  in  professing 
to  print  Glover's  Visitation,  given  nothing  but  that  Visitation, 
and  have  carefully  avoided  all  "  continuations  "  and  "  enlarge- 
ments," except  in  a  few  instances  (and  they  are  all  noted) 
in  which  I  have  utilized  the  information  supplied  by  the 
"HathertonMS."  • 

By  this  name  I  refer  to  a  transcript  in  the  William  Salt 
Library  (made  by  Mr.  James  Broughton)  of  a  manuscript 
belonging  to  Lord  Hathertoh.  This  MS.  purports  to  be  a  copy 
of  Glover's  Visitation,  but,  like  most  of  the  so-called  copies,  it 
contains  much  additional  matter.  It  is  identical — even  in  its 
errors — with  John  Withie's  "  Copie  of  the  Visitation  book  of 
Staffordshire  made  in  1583  "  (Harl.  MS.  1077),  which  is  dated 
1621.  Mr.  Broughton  wrote  an  account  of  this  volume  in  the 
"Gentleman's  Magazine"  for  September  1829  (p.  212);  and  in 
the  Preface  to  his  transcript  he  suggests  that  his  original  "  is 
in  the  handwriting  of  Sampson  Erdeswick  and  his  amanuensis 
Wyrley."  But  he  gives  no  reasons  for  this  opinion,  and  it  is 
manifest  from  internal  evidence  that  the  MS.  is  of  a  more 
recent  date  than  he  supposes. 

In  addition  to  the  pedigrees,  the  Queen's  College  and 
Stukeley  MSS.  contain  numerous  extracts  from  old  deeds  and 
charters,  and  tricks  of  seals  illustrating  the  descents  and  arms 
of  the  families  whose  genealogies  are  recorded.  These  I  have 
omitted,  and  personally  I  regret  the  omission.  But  it  has  been 
considered  that  these  documents  would  be  more  fittingly  in- 
troduced into  the  Staffordshire  Chartulary  commenced  in  the 
second  volume  of  these  Collections.  I  have  also  omitted  some 
preliminary  matter,  such  as  extracts  from  "  Domesday,"  the 
"  Liber  Rubeus,"  and  sundry  other  documents  which  have  been 
already  printed  either  by  the  Record  Commissioners  or  by 
Shaw,  or  have  been  made  public  in  other  ways.  I  should  also 
add  that  I  am  alone  responsible  for  the  alphabetical  arrange- 
ment of  the  pedigrees.  They  are  not  so  arranged  in  my 
original,  but,  besides  the  obvious  utility  of  such  an  arrano-e- 
ment  for  purposes  of  reference,  there  are  several  cogent  reasons 
(with  which  I  need  not  trouble  the  reader)  which  have  influ- 
enced me.     On  pages  xix  and  xx,  however,  will  be  found  a 


Xll  INTRODUCTION. 

list  of  the  pedigrees  in  the  order  in  which  they  are  given  in 
the  original. 

An  examination  of  the  list  of  those  summoned  by  Glover  to 
appear  before  him  and  record  their  descents  (pp.  3-11)  will 
shew  that  204  persons,  or  about  183  heads  of  families,  were 
ordered  to  put  in  an  appearance.  Of  these  forty-seven  were 
"  Ignobiles,"*  and  were  "disclaimed,"  together  with  some  who 
in  the  list  are  styled  "gentlemen."  Some  were  "  extra  com." 
or  "hors  du  pays,"  that  is  out  of  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
visiting  Herald,  or  absent  and  unable  to  appear.  Making  due 
allowance  for  all  these,  it  follows  that  at  least  forty  heads  of 
families  made  default,  or,  as  Glover  would  term  it,  "  disobedi- 
ently and  contemptuously  "  refused  to  appear  before  him  ;  and 
these  defaulters  bore  such  well-known  names  as  Congreve, 
Wolseley,  Sneyd,  Fowke,  Lane,  Kynnersley,  Draycott,  Chet- 
wynd,  Stanley,  Skeffington,  Swynfen,  etc.,  etc.f 

With  regard  to  this  last-named  family  Edmund  Lodge, 
Lancaster  Herald  (writing  in  1797),  remarks  how  strange  it  is 
that  the  Swynfens  of  Swynfen  should  have  neglected  to  enter 
their  pedigree  in  any  of  the  Staffordshire  Visitations;  and 
tenfold  more  strange  (he  adds)  that  Dugdale,  the  son  of 
Elizabeth  Swynfen,  should  have  nowhere  given  any  further 
account  of  this  his  mother's  family  than  the  mere  names  of  her 
father  and  grandfather. 

The  late  Mr.  J.  G.  Nichols,  in  noticing  the  Lancashire 
Visitations  published  by  the  Chetham  Society,  observes  that 
though  it  is  a  decided  testimony  to  the  antiquity  of  a  family 
that  it  should  appear  in  a  Visitation,  yet  its  absence  is  not  a 
positive  proof  to  the  contrary.  There  is  (he  continues)  an 
amount  of  accident  as  to  the  admission  or  omission  of  families 


*  "  Nohiles"  says  Coke,  "sunt  qui  arma  gentilicia  anticessorum  suorum  proferre 
possunt."  By  the  word  ignobilis  the  Heralds  simply  meant  "  not  entitled  to  bear 
arms,"  or,  as  it  is  sometimes  expressed  in  English,  "  no  gentleman." 

t  When  Sir  W.  Dugdale  visited  Yorkshire  in  1665-6  nearly  one-third  of  the 
whole  number  of  gentry  whom  he  called  upon  to  appear  before  him  with  proofs  of 
their  arms  and  pedigrees  treated  his  summonses  with  neglect.  In  the  Preface  to 
the  printed  Visitation  a  list  of  the  persons  who  were  contumacious  is  given,  and  in 
this  list  may  lie  recognised  a  few  of  the  well-known  ancient  gentry  of  the  county, 
besides  many  headjs  of  families  whose  descendants  at  this  day  would  have  rejoiced 
had  1  bey  then  placed  their  pedigrees  on  record.  There  will  also  be  found  a  long 
list  of  defaulters  at  the  same  Herald's  Visitation  of  Lancashire,  1664-5,  in  the 
Introduction  to  the  Chetham  Society's  printed  copy. 


INTRODUCTION.  Xlll 

in  the  Visitation  books.  Ormerod  has  remarked  that  the  very 
ancient  family  of  Hulton  of  Hulton  is  entered  only  in  the  first 
and  last  Visitations  of  Lancashire,  and  that  of  Gerard  of  Bryn 
in  none. 

Some  men,  no  doubt,  were  too  proud  to  have  their  ancient 
standing  brought  at  all  into  question,  or  to  allow  that  it 
required  recognition.  Others  were  altogether  careless  and  in- 
different, and  their  tastes  were  for  very  different  objects. 
Others  would  be  absent  from  home  at  the  time  of  the  Heralds' 
circuit ;  or,  if  summoned  to  attend  them  at  a  neighbouring 
town,  were  possibly  prevented  by  illness,  or  indisposed  by 
domestic  sorrow  and  trouble.* 

With  regard  to  the  degree  of  credit  to  be  attached  to 
Visitation  pedigrees,  the  same  writer  remarks  that  the  Visita- 
tions stand  in  the  position  of  a  witness  at  a  trial,  supposed  to 
be  the  person  best  informed  upon  the  subject  of  inquiry,  but 
who  may  be  mistaken  from  defect  of  memory  or  other  accidental 
circumstances.  Still,  he  adds,  such  evidence,  collected  by 
officers  whose  business  it  was  to  gather  the  truth,  must  at 
least  be  important,  if  not  always  authoritative,  and  of  course 
all  the  more  worthy  of  credit,  so  far  as  it  is  contemporaneous, 
or  nearly  so,  with  the  facts  related. f 

The  principal  authority  possessed  by  the  Visitation  books  is 
undoubtedly  the  signature  of  the  head  of  the  family  therein 
recorded.  But  it  is  notorious  that  subscribers  frequently 
attached  their  names  to  most  defective  and  imperfect  genea- 
logies— genealogies  from  which  the  maiden  and  even  christian 
names  of  their  own  wives  and  mothers  are  frequently  absent ; 
and  though  it  must  be  admitted  that  the  visiting  Herald  was 
in  a  great  measure  dependent  on  the  individual  who  furnished 
the  information,  yet  surely  he  should  be  held  responsible  for 
these  frequent  omissions  of  names  and  facts  which,  it  is 
obvious,  the  person  who  entered  the  pedigree  could  easily 
supply.  One  of  many  examples  of  this  strange  and  unaccount- 
able carelessness  will  be  found  in  the  descent  of  Arblaster  in 
this  Visitation.  Thomas  Arblaster,  who  signed  this  pedigree, 
must  at  least  have  known  his  mother's  name ;  and  his  father, 

*  "  Herald  and  Genealogist,  vii.,  p.  47. 
f  Ibid.,  ii.,  p.  185. 


XIV  INTRODUCTION. 

who  was  then  living,  could  assuredly,  if  asked,  have  supplied 
further  information.  Of  course  this  is  by  no  means  a  solitary 
instance  of  such  a  state  of  things,  but  I  am  not  aware  that 
any  satisfactory  explanation  of  the  astonishing  ignorance 
apparently  displayed  by  the  subscribers  of  Visitation  pedigrees 
— or  the  extreme  carelessness  of  the  Herald  who  recorded 
them — has  yet  been  offered.  The  Heralds  were  enjoined  by 
the  Eoyal  Commission  under  which  all  their  Visitations  were 
made,  not  only  to  "  peruse  and  take  knowledge "  of  "  all 
manner  of  Arms,"  etc.,  but  also  to  take  "  notes  of  the  descents, 
pedigrees,  and  marriages  "  of  the  "  nobiles  "  in  their  provinces. 
Yet  it  seems  to  me  that  as  a  rule  they  paid  far  more  attention 
to  the  former  than  the  latter ;  and  provided  that  a  right 
to  arms  was  satisfactorily  established,  they  did  not  trouble 
themselves  to  ascertain,  even  by  oral  testimony,  the  names  or 
parentage  of  females  who,  being  neither  heiresses  nor  co- 
heiresses, were  not  in  a  position  to  transmit  their  armorial 
insignia  to  posterity. 

In  the  College  of  Arms  there  are  three  copies  (so  called) 
of  Glover's  Visitation,  which  collectively  contain  a  vast  deal  of 
additional  and  indeed  extraneous  matter.  These  are  Dugdale's 
own  copy,  Vincent's,  and  a  volume  called  E.D.N.  13. 

The  first-named  manuscript  is  in  Dugdale's  own  hand- 
writing. I  here  copy  its  instructive  titlepage:  "A  Copye  of 
the  Visitation  of  Staffordshire  made  by  William  Flower,  Norroy 
King  of  Armes,  in  A0  mdlxxxiii  (the  Originall  having  been 
long  since  purloyned*  out  of  this  Office)  :  which  Copye  was 
taken  from  a  Transcript  thereof  sometimes  belonging  to 
Edward  Gwynn,  late  of  FurnivalPs  Inne,  in  Com'  MiddP  (but 
now  in  the  Library  of  William  Pierpoint,  of  Thoresby,  in 
Com'  ISTott'  Esq1"),  by  William  Dugdale,  Esq1',  Norroy  King  of 
Armes,  and  given  unto  this  Society  vj°  Maij,  mdclxviii.  In 
which  transcript,  though  there  be  divers  errors  and  mistakes  ; 
yet  considering  that  the  Originall  is  thus  lost,  it  was  thought 
better  thus  to  preserve  a  Copye,  wdl  possibly  may  in  time  be 
rectified,  than  to  have  nothing  at  all  thereof."  In  addition  to 
the   Visitation  with   its  "  errors  and  mistakes,"  the  volume 

*  It  is  ratlier  singular  that  the  original  of  Glover's  Visitation  of  Yorkshire  in 
1584  is  also  stated  to  have  been  "  purloined  "  from  the  College. 


INTRODUCTION.  XV 

contains  a  series  of  other  pedigrees  which  Dugdale  says  did 
not,  in  his  opinion,  form  a  part  of  the  Visitation. 

From  the  disappearance  of  the  original  until  the  year  1668, 
therefore,  the  Heralds  did  not  even  possess  a  copy  of  this 
Visitation.  But  on  the  death  of  Ralph  Sheldon,  of  Beoley, 
co.  Worcester,  in  1684,  the  College  acquired  under  his  will  the 
two  other  manuscripts  above  named,  one  of  which  (Vincent  133) 
was,  in  the  absence  of  the  original,  allowed  to  be  put  in  evidence 
in  1785  in  a  trial  respecting  the  manor  of  Mere,  as  appears  by 
a  note  inserted  in  the  volume  by  Francis  Townsend,  Windsor 
Herald. 

Other  manuscripts  in  public  and  private,  collections  pur- 
porting to  be  copies  of  this  Visitation  (most  of  which  were 
carefully  examined  and  abstracts  of  their  contents  taken  by 
Mr.  Thorpe)  are  : — 

1.  A  copy  in  the  library  at  Loxley  Park,  transcribed  by 

Captain  Fernyhough. 

2.  A   copy  in   the   Bodleian   Library,   Oxford :     Gough's 

Staffordshire  MSS.,  No.  1.  This  contains  many 
additional  pedigrees,  one  dated  1750  and  another 
1752,  and  the  Arms  of  Sir  T.  Broughton  dated 
1768. 

3.  A  second  copy  in  Queen's  College  library,  Oxford. 

4.  Harl.  MS.  818.     A  book  in  folio,  containing,  inter  alia, 

pedigrees  from  Glover's  Visitation  and  from  Erdes- 
wick's  Collections,  written  partly  by  Ralph  Brooke 
and  partly  by  others. 

5.  Harl.  MS.  1077.     A  folio  MS.,  "  the  far  greater  part  of 

which  was  written  and  tricked  a.d.  1621  by  the 
hand  of  John  Withie,  the  arms  painter."  It  is  a 
copy  of  Glover's  Visitation,  but  has  "  many  addi- 
tions." This,  as  has  been  already  stated,  corresponds 
nearly  page  by  page  with  Lord  Hatherton's  MS., 
excepting  the  additions  of  which  Wanley  (Harl. 
Catalogue)  speaks,  which  are  in  another  hand. 
There  are  also  inserted  pedigrees  of  a  later  date : 
inter  alia,  a  pedigree  of  Mynors  drawn  up  by  John 
Tilston  in  1678,  a  pedigree  of  Foljambe  "  seeming 
to  be  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  Henry  St.  George," 


XVI  INTRODUCTION. 

a  pedigree  of  Nott  of  Cannock,  and  two  pedigrees 
of  Leveson.  It  is  noted  in  the  Catalogue  that 
"  Mr.  Withie  has  transcribed  the  subscriptions  of 
the  gentlemen  at  the  bottom  of  their  descents  into 
this  book."  It  should  be  mentioned  that  the  rota- 
tion of  the  pedigrees  in  this  MS.  is  quite  different 
to  the  Queen's  College  and  Stukeley  MSS. 

6.  Harl.  MS.  1173.     A  transcript  of  Withie's  book  ;  "  but 

it  is  to  be  noted  that  notwithstanding  many  gross 
faults  in  this  copy  through  the  ignorance  and  care- 
lessness of  the  copyiste,  it  is  of  value  because  of 
many  considerable  additions  made  to  it  which  are 
wanting  in  Mr.  Withie's  book ;  as  Mr.  Withie's 
also  has  many  recent  additions  inserted  in  it  since 
this  transcript  was  made."     (Wanley.) 

7.  Harl.  MS.  1415.     A  folio  volume,  containing,  besides  the 

Staffordshire  Visitation,  that  of  Yorkshire  taken  by 
Glover  in  1584-5.  Wanley  says  he  cannot  be  positive 
as  to  who  wrote  this  MS.,  "because  it  is  known 
that  many  officers  of  Arms  wrote  very  like  to  one 
another."  In  this  MS.  the  last  name  in  the  list  of 
Staffordshire  disclaimers  is  industriously  blotted 
out ;  "  the  posterity  or  relations  of  him,"  writes 
Wanley,  "being  perhaps  grown  ashamed  of  that 
disclaiming."  The  name  thus  erased  was  "  John 
Coleman  of  Canke." 

8.  Harl.  MS.  1429.     Contains  a  few  arms  and  memoranda 

from  Glover's  Visitation ;  also  a  few  descents  from 
Dugdale's  Visitation  of  1663-4,  inserted  by  John 
Saunders.  It  also  contains  a  so-called  Visitation  of 
Hertfordshire,  but  this,  says  Wanley,  is  "  a  painter's 
title,"  for  arms  painters  (he  adds)  "  when  they  see 
a  book  of  pedigrees  relating  to  one  county  alone 
usually  call  them  Visitations  without  further  exami- 
nation." 

9.  Harl.    MS.    1570.      "Written   and   tricked   by    divers 

hands  ;  more  espescially  by  Mr.  Nicholas  Charles 
and  Mr.  Eichard  Mundy."  It  contains  "a  very 
good  copy  "  of  Glover's  Visitation,  but  with  "  very 


INTRODUCTION.  XV11 

many  enlargements  and  continuations  by  Richard 
Mundy  and  others,"  and  "  some  descents  entered  by 
Mr.  Mundy  which  were  either  not  at  all  registered 
at  the  Visitation  of  the  County  in  1583,  or  at  least 
not  in  so  ample  a  manner." 

10.  Harl.  MS.  6128.     A  very  valuable  collection  of  pedigrees 

of  Staffordshire  families,  which  has  been  largely  used 
by  genealogists  and  almost  invariably  quoted  as 
"The  Visitation  of  1583" — which  it  certainly  is  not. 
Its  date  is  circa  1620. 

11.  A  copy  referred  to  by  Shaw  (vol.  2,  Introd.,  p.  xxx)  as 

being  then  in  the' possession  of   Mr.  Sharpe  "the 

ingenious  antiquary  of   Coventry."      He    describes 

it  as  "  a  most  curious  copy  of  Glover's  Visitation  of 

1583,  transcribed  by  William  Smith,  Rouge  Dragon, 

1597,    and    illustrated   with   various    additions    by 

Erdeswick,  Rowland  Frith  [of  Thornes,  Shenstone] 

the  Herald,  and  others ;  also  a  coloured  map  of  the 

county,  and  a  later  Visitation  at  the  end." 

In   conclusion   1    desire   to   call    special  attention    to   Mr. 

Parker's  able  article  on  the  Wastineys  family,  and  to  express 

a  hope  that  it  may  be  regarded  as   a  precedent   for  similar 

papers  in  illustration  and  correction  of  this  Visitation. 

H.  Sydney  Grazebrook. 


December,  1882. 


(     xix     ) 


Utet  of  tfte  $etit(j;rce£  rrrortJctr  bg  #tobrr, 

IN  THE  ORDER  IN  WHICH  THEY  ARE  GIVEN  IN  THE 
QUEEN'S  COLLEGE  AND  STUKELEY  MSS. 


PAGE 

PAGE 

Stafford  (seal) 

27 

Broughton  of  Longdon 

.       60 

Stafford       . 

.     132 

Streethay    . 

.     137 

Lichfield  (seal)    . 

.       28 

Everard 

.       69 

Paget 

.     122 

Bagshaw 

.       41 

Gresley  and  Gastneys  . 

.       86 

Arblaster     . 

.       34 

Gresley 

85 

Welles 

145 

Gresley   (Stemma    antiquis- 

Hill    . 

98 

simum)    . 

.       87 

Endesore     . 

.       68 

Harcourt     . 

91 

Leigh 

101 

Coyney 

65 

Leigh,  Rushall,  etc. 

103 

Bagot 

39 

Grosvenor   . 

.       90 

Trentham   .        .        .         . 

139 

Moseley 

115 

Fitzherbert 

72 

Whorwood  . 

148 

Bassett,  Meynell,  etc.  . 

44 

Leveson 

106 

Bassett 

45 

Whorwood  . 

150 

Bassett  and  Egerton    . 

46 

Giffard 

80 

Newcastle  (seal)  . 

28 

Whorwood  of  Bobington 

151 

Bowyer       . 

53 

Wrottesley  . 

152 

Thicknes     . 

138 

Stamford  of  Pury  Hall 

133 

Main  waring 

113 

Stamford  of  Pakington,  etc 

135 

Brett 

55 

Wyrley        . 

153 

Colyar         . 

64 

Skrimshire  . 

129 

Foljambe     . 

77 

Broughton  of  Broughton 

58 

Brooke        . 

56 

Moreton      . 

114 

Rugeley      . 

127 

Whitgreave 

147 

Adderley     . 

.       33 

Cholmley     . 

62 

XX 


LIST   OF    THE    PEDIGREES    RECORDED    BY    GLOVER. 


PAGE 

PAGE 

Giffard       .                          .81 

Ashenhurst          .        .        .35 

Somirford   . 

131 

Smith 

130 

Rudyerd 

126 

Unwyn 

142 

Biddulph     . 

50 

Yardley 

154 

Aston . 

37 

Robinson     . 

125 

Littleton     . 

108 

Harcourt  and  Astley 

94 

Astley 

36 

Harcourt  of  Ranton 

94 

Dickens 

67 

Fitzherbert 

74 

Feme . 

.       70 

Humett 

99 

Nevill 

.     116 

Hawlces 

97 

Brooke,  etc. 

.       57 

Petit  . 

124 

Hunt 

.     100 

Verdon 

144 

Okeover 

.     120 

Bowes,  etc. 

51 

Fitzwilliam 

.       76 

Plantney 

125 

Fowler 

.       78 

Corbett 

64 

Vise    . 

.     144 

Lyseux 

110 

Crompton    . 

.       66 

Bassett 

47 

Macclesfield 

.     Ill 

Noel    . 

117 

Bartram,  etc. 

.       42 

Noel  {ex  Chartis,  etc.) 

119 

Tyrrell 

.     141 

Finderne     . 

71 

THE 


Visitation  of  f^tafforosfjire, 

A.D.  1583. 


What  is  to  be    performed    by   the    heralds  at  their 
going  in  visitation. 

The  names  of  the  Hundreds  in  such  a  sheere  as  they  will  visitt 
being  collected  out  of  the  Sheryve's  bookes,  or  the  Under- 
sheryve's,  with  all  the  surnames  and  cristen  names  of  all  such 
as  are  called  or  wrytten  Knights,  Esquyers,  and  Gentlemen  in 
the  sheer,  that  beying  taken  and  gathered  then  wrytten  in  a 
booke,  all  those  names  so  receaved  every  C  by  itselfe,  which 
doth  serve  them  to  marke  the  apearance  of  all  such  as  doe 
apeare  (being  warned  by  the  Baylye  of  the  sayde  C  by  vertue 
of  a  precept  delyvered  by  the  Herauld  to  him)  in  this  maner : 

J.  M.     Knight, 

W.  T.   Esquier, 

T.  B.     Gentln,  apparuit, 

A.  S.     Gentln,  Ignobilis, 

F.  J.      Gentln,  apparuit,  entred, 

J.  H.  Gentln,  Nothus, 
they  doe  ryde  to  every  Knight's  house  and  take  notice  there, 
as  also  to  such  esquyers  as  will  have  them  come.  The  resi- 
dewe  are  warned  by  the  Bayley  to  appeare  at  the  cheifest 
towne  in  the  Hundred  at  a  daye  certaine,  where  the  sayde 
Herauld  doth  resorte  to  take  notyce. 

B 


2  the  visitation  op  staffordshire,  a.d.  1583. 

Somerset's    warrant,     directed     to    the    bailiff     of    the 

Hundred  of    Cudleston,  to    summon    the    Esquires  and 

Gentlemen    inhabiting  within  the    said    Hundred 

to  appear  before    him  in  order   to    the 

enregistering  of  their    several 

arms  and  descents. 

To  John  Berwike,  baylif  of  the  Hundred  of  Cudleston 

in    the   countye     of    Stafforde,   his    Deputie    or 

Deputies. 

These  are  to  require  you,  and  in  the  Queene's  Majestie's 

name  to  charge  and  commande  you,  that  forthwth  upon  the 

sight  hereof  you  warne  these  Esq13  and  Gent11  whose  names 

are     hereunder     written    p'sonally     to     apeare    before    mee 

Somersett,  Marshall  and  Deputy  to  Norrey  Kinge  of  Amies, 

at  Stafford  on beinge    the daye  of  ...  . 

at  nyne  of  the  clocke  before  Noone  the  same  day,  whereat  I 
doe  intende  to  sytte  for  the  better  registeringe  of  all  the 
Gent,  w'thin  the  sayde  Hundred;  and  that  they  bringe 
wth  them  such  Armes  and  Creasts  as  they  nowe  use  and 
beare,  wth  their  Pedigrees  or  Descentes,  and  such  of  theire 
evidence  or  matter  of  record e  and  credite  as  may  (if  neede  so 
require)  justifie  the  same  :  to  the  intent  that  I,  knowinge 
howe  they  use  and  chalenge  the  names  of  Esqr  and  Gentle- 
man, and  beare  their  Armes,  may  accordingly  make 
entrance  therof  and  recorde  the  same  ;  or  else  to  proceede 
as  the  Vertue  of  my  comissyon  bindeth  me  in  that  behaulf . 

Alsoe  will  such  of  them  as  have  receaved  either  Armes, 
Creasts,  or  Pedigrees  of  one  WilPm  Dakins,*  the  late  lewde 

*  It  would  appear  that  this  "lewde  usurper"  of  Norroy's  functions  was  a 
member  of  the  family  formerly  seated  at  Stubbing  Edge,  in  Derbyshire.  For  Mr. 
Glover,  in  his  "  History  of  Derbyshire,"  mentions  a  tablet  in  Ashover  Church  in 
memory  of  sundry  Dakeynes  of  Stubbing,  and  among  those  commemorated  is 
"  Gulielmus  Dakeyne,  Norroy."  Dallaway  ("  Heraldic  Inquiries,"  p.  318)  has  printed 
a  copy  of  a  "Warrant  issued  in  1597  by  the  then  Earl  Marshal  directing  the  appre- 
hension of  this  man.  He  is  described  as  "a  notable  dealer  in  Armes,  and  maker  of 
false  pedigrees,"  for  which  fault  (it  is  added)  "  about  xx  years  past  he  lost  one  of 
his  ears,  and  about  a  year  past  he  was  apprehended  for  the  like  and  imprisoned." 
It  appears  that  Dakyns  had  compiled  spurious  pedigrees  for  nearly  one  hundred 
families,  and  that  his  son  Christopher  Dakyns,  and  one  Edward  Waterhouse — the 
latter  "  falsely  calling  himself  servant  to  Clurenceux " — had  carried  on  a  like 
nefarious  trade. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  3 

usurper  of  the  office  of  Norrey  Kinge  of  Armes,  to  bringe 
them  in  to  be  cancelled,  if  they  be  untrue,  and,  beinge 
founde  justifiable,  to  receave  the  same  at  my  handes  wth  war- 
ran  dize,  as  I  am  espetyally  comanded  by  her  Matie  and  the 
Lordes  of  her  Hignes'  most  honorable  Privie  Councell. 

And  these  that  may  not  comodiously  bringe  wth  them  such 
theire  evidences,  auncient  writinges,  and  monuments  (sic)  as 
would  serve  to  prove  the  antiquitie  of  theire  race  and 
familye,  but  shalbe  desirous  to  have  me  home  to  theire 
houses ;  upon  the  significatyon  of  such  theire  desires,  for  the 
furtherance  of  Her  Matie9  service,  I  will  make  my  repaire  unto 
them  soe  soone  as  conveniently  I  maye.  Herof  charge  them 
not  to  fayle  as  they  will  avoyde  the  perill  that  may  ensue  of 
any  theire  contemptes  herin. 

Geven  at  Stafford  under  the  Scale  of  the  office  of  Norrey, 
the  day  of  July,  aho  1583,  in  the  xxvth  yeare  of 

the  raigne  of  our  most  gratious  Soveraigne  Ladye 
Queen  Elizabeth. 


Nomina*  Nobilitjm  de  Com'  Stafford,  1583. 

[Being  a  list  of  those  summoned  by  warrant  to  appear  before 

Glover,  Somerset,  and  record  their  descents  and  arms.] 

HUNDREDUM    DE    CuDLESTON. 

Ap.   Joh'es  Asteley,  vel  Aspley,  de  Woodeaton.     Ignobilis. 
fRicardus  Brooke,  de  Lapley,  ar. 
Entcl.  Ap.    JEdwardus  Cholmeley,  de  Copenhall,  gen. 

Ap.   Edwardus    Clarke,   aVs    Grenway,   de    Shredicott. 
Ignobilis. 

*  To  a  large  proportion  of  the  names  in  this  list  a  trick  of  the  family  arms  is 
attached.  I  only  note  those  which  are  not  elsewhere  recorded  in  this  Visitation. 
What  authority  attaches  to  these  coats  I  am  unable  to  say,  but  probably  they  are 
mere  memoranda  made  by  the  transcriber.  I  should  mention  that  I  am  responsible 
for  the  alphabetical  arrangement  here  adopted. 

f  Cheeky,  argent  and  sable,  on  a  chief  or,  a  brock  (or  badger)  proper. 

%  The  arms  here  given  are  ....  three  garbs,  2  and  1,  between  the  two  upper 
garbs  a  crescent ;  but  see  the  Pedigree. 

B   2 


4  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Johannes  Coleman,  de  Canke,  gen. 

*Franciscus  Congreve,  de  Stretton,  gen. 

Matheus  Cradock,  de  Villa  de  Stafford,  gen. 

Thomas  Cress  well,  de  Liddall,  gen. 

Kic'us  Dickenson,  de  Bradley.     Ignobilis. 

Philippns  Draycott,  de  Littlewood,  gen. 

Joh'es  Egginton,  de  Roberson,  gen. 

Joh'es  Fowke,  de  Guns'on,  gen. 

fPogerus  Fowke,  de  Brewood,  gen. 

Will'nius  Fynney,  de  Canke.     Ignobilis. 

Joh'es  Giffard,  de  Chillington,  ar. 

Hnmfridns  Giffard,  de ,  tertins  filius,  gen. 

JThomas  Lane,  de  Hyde  et  de  Bentley,  ar.,  Jnstic'. 

§Edwardus  Littleton,  de  Pilletonhall,  ar.,  Justic'. 

Ricardus  Milles,  de  Bedam,  gen. 

Joh'es   Mitton   aVs  HarjDesfeild,   de  Weston  under 
Lizard,  ar. 

Adamus  Moreton,  de  Wilbrighton,  ar. 
Ap.   Edwardus  Moreton,  de  Ingleton,  gen. 
Ap.    Franciscus  Picto,  de  Churcheaton.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.    Thomas  Skrimshire,  de  Forton,  ar.,  fra'  " 
senior. 

Jacobus    Skrimshire,   de  Norbury,  ar., 
fra'  junior. 

Galfridus  Somerford,  de  Somerford,  gen. 
Entd.  Edwardus,  D'ns  Stafford. 

Ric'us  Weston,  de  Rudgeley,  gen. 
Ap.    Humfridus  Whitgreve,  de  Burton,  ar. 

Erasmus  Wolseley,  de  Wolseley,  ar. 

HlTNDREDUM    DE    OfFELOWE. 

Georgius   Abell,  de    Neuburgh,    Senescallus   com' 
Salop. 

*  Sable,  a  chevron  between  three  battle  axes  argent. 

t  Vert,  a  fleur-de-lis  argent. 

X  ....  a  chevron  between  three  mullets  ....  Added  by  Mr.  Booth,  "  This 
coat  is  mistaken,  it  should  be  parted  p'  fesse  or  and  B.,  a  ^-s  G.  bet.  3  mullets 
counterchanged  of  the  feild." 

§  Argent,  a  bend  cottised  sable  within  a  border  engrailed  gules  bezautee, — the 
coat  of  Westcote. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  5 

Eiitd.  Radulplrus  Adderley,  de  Cotonhall,  ar.,  Justic'. 

Georgius  Agard,  de  Barton. 
Huinfridus  Agard,  de  Newburgh. 
Will'us  Agai'd,  de  Tmistall,  gen. 
Entd.  Ap.   Thomas  Arblaster,  de  Longdon,  gen. 

*Syinon  Arden,  de  Yoxall,  gen. 
Entd.  Ap.   Nicholaus  Bagshawe,  de  Farwell,  gen. 
Edward  us  Bassett,  de  Hintes,  gen. 
fJoli'es  Bowes,  de  Elford,  ar.,  Justic'.     Recusavit. 
JJoh'es  Brittayne,  de  Sirescott  et  Tamworth,  ar. 
Ap.   Rob'tus  Brookes,  de  Haselore,  gen. 
Ap.   Edwardus  Broughton,  de  Longdon,  gen. 
Thomas  Carden,  del  Hermitage. 
§  Will'us  Comberford,  de  Comberford,  gen. 
Ricardus  Endesore,  de  Pagetts  Bromley,  gen. 
Entd.  Thomas  Ensore,  de  Cumberford,  gen. 

Entd.  Humfridus  Everard,  de  Whittington,  gen. 

Rowlandus  Eyre,  de  Hermitage,  gen. 
Entd.  Thomas  Fitzherbert,  de  Hampstall  Rydware,  Miles. 

Thomas  Fowke,  de  Aston,  gen. 
Thomas  Frythe,  de  Thornes.     Ignobilis. 
Henricus  Grove,  de  Handesworth.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.   Joh'es  Harmon,  de  Morehall, — a  patent  granted  by 

Garter  and  Clarencieulx. 
Ap.    Ric'us  Hawkes,  de  Rushall,  gen. 
Entd.  Hugo  Hill,  de  Pipe,  gen. 

||Edmundus  James,  de  com.  Wigorn.,   ar.,  Justic'. 
Hors  du  pays. 
Entd.  ^[Edwardus  Leghe,  de  Rushall,  ar. 

** Will'us  Madder,  de  Tonge,  et  de  Harleston,  ar., 
Justic'. 

*  Ermine,  a  fesse  counter-componee  or  and  azure. 

t  Ermine,  three  bows  strung  in  fesse  gules,  a  crescent  for  difference.     See 
"  D  mbtful  Arms,"  post. 

t  See  "  Doubtful  Arms." 

§  Gules,  on  a  cross  engrailed  or  four  roses  of  the  field. 

||  See  "  Doubtful  Arms." 

%  Gules,  on  a  cross  engrailed  between  four  unicorn's  heads  erased  ....  as  many 
roundles. 

**  Azure,  on  a  fesse  wavy  ermine  three  lions  rampant  gules. 


O  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Humfridus  Minors,  de  Barton,  gen. 

Frauncis  Monntford,  de  Walsall,  ar. 

Jacobus  JSToell,  de  Pelsall,  gen. 

Joh'es  Parsliouse,  de  Walsall.     Ignobilis. 

Will'us  Rolston,  de  Rolston,  gen. 

Thomas  Pudgley,  de  Hawkesyard,  ar. 
Entd.  Ap.    Will'us  Ruggeley,  de  Smalwood,  gen. 

"^Thomas  Salt,  de  Yoxall,  gen. 

fJoh'es  Skevington,  de  Fiskerwick,  ar. 
Ap.   Edwardus  Sprott,  de  Askmerebroke.     Ignobilis. 
Entd.  Eobertus  Stamford,  de  Pyrybarre,  ar.,  Justic'. 

Entd.  Ap.   Will'us  Staunford,  de  Pakinton  et  de  Eowley,  gen. 

Walterus  Stanley,  de  Westbromwicke,  ar. 
Entd.  Ap.   PkiLvppus  Strettey,  de  Streetey,  gen. 

JRic'us  Swynfeild,  de  Swinfeild,  gen. 
Ap.   Humfridus  Thickbrome,  de  Tkickbrome.     Ignobilis. 
Entd.  Ap.   Eob'tus  Welles,  de  Horecrosse,  ar. 

§Thomas  Whittington,  de  Newborowe,  gen. 
Entd.  Thomas  Wirley,  de  Handesworth,  ar.,  Justic'. 

||  Humfridus  Wolverston,  de  Stotfeld,  gen. 

HuNDREDUM    DE    ToTMONSLOW. 

Ap.    Joh'es  Ashenhurst,  de  Ashenhurst.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.   Johannes  Basford,  de  Hillsdale,     Ignobilis. 
Entd.  Will'us  Bassett,  de  Blore,  ar.,  Justic'. 

*  Argent,  a  chevron  conped  between  three  mullets  sable.  With  these  arms 
Thomas  Salt  quartered — (1)  Stockley,  of  Yoxall,  Argent,  a  chevron  between  three 
boars  statant  gules,  and  (2)  He  wet,  of  Walsall,  Sable,  a  chevron  engrailed  between 
three  owls  or.  Thomas  Salt  married  Anne,  daughter  and  coheir  of  Thomas  Strong- 
man, of  Ealey  (Rayleigh  ?),  Essex,  and  had  issue — Eichard,  Thomas,  Eobert,  and 
Elizabeth  (Harl.  MS.  886,  Vis.  Essex,  1558,  etc.).  He  was  son  of  Eichard  Salt, 
and  grandson  of  Eobert  Salt,  of  Yoxall,  by  .  .  .  .,  daughter  of  .  .  .  .  Sprott,  of  Ash- 
morebrook.  His  mother,  Elizabeth,  was  daughter  and  coheir  of  Thomas  Stockley, 
of  Yoxall,  son  of  Ealph,  and  grandson  of  William  Stockley,  by  Margaret,  his  wife, 
daughter  and  coheir  of  John  Hewet,  of  Walsall.     See  Leigh  Pedigree. 

f  Argent,  three  bull's  heads,  erased  sable,  a  mullet  for  difference.  See  "  Doubtful 
Arms."  X  This  is  no  doubt  intended  for  Swynfen. 

§  Argent,  a  bugle  horn  strung  between  three  escallops  sable.  This  is  the  coat 
of  Tamhonie  which  Whittington  was  entitled  to  quarter.  The  coat  borne  by  the 
family  was  Argent,  three  mullets  azure.     See  Shaw,  i.,  75  and  93. 

II  See  "Doubtful  Arms." 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  7 

Bartk'us  Colclougke,  de  Delpkurst.     Ignobilis. 
Rickard  Crompton,  de  Ckeckley,  ar.,  Justic'. 
Entd.  Joh'es  Cuny,  de  Weston  Cuny,  ar. 

*  Jok'es  Draycott,  de  Paynsley,  ar. 
Antkonius  Eyton,  de  Matkfeld.     Ignobilis. 
Jok'es  Feme,  de  Crakeinarcke.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.   Henricus  Flacket,  de  Cambridge.     Ignobilis. 
fJok'es  Fleetwood,  de  Calewicke,  ar. 
Ric'us  Flyar,  de  Utoxetur.     Ignobilis. 
Entd.  Godfridus  Foljambe,  de  Croxsden,  ar.    Nothus. 

Ap.    Jokannes  Henskaw,  de  Lockwood.     Ignobilis. 
Jok'es  Higginbotkain,  de  Ruskton.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.    Hugk  Hollyns,  de  Moseley.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.   Tkomas  Homersley,  de  Skaw.     Ignobilis. 
JAntkonius  Kinnersley,  de  Locksley,  gen. 
Tkomas  Madeley,  de  Denston.     Ignobilis. 
§  Sampson  Meverell,  de  Tkrowley,  ar. 
Franciscus  Mynoures,  de  Woodland,  gen. 
Entd.  ||Rad's  Minours,  de  Utoxetur,  gen. 

Ap.   Will'us  Mountford,  de  Banke,  yeoman.     Ignobilis. 

Pkilippus  Okeover,  de  Okeover,  ar.,  Justic'. 
Ap.   Tkomas  Parker,  de  Careswall.     Ignobilis. 

Jok'es  Port,  dellam.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.   Tkomas  Pyott,  de  Ckedull.     Ignobilis. 

Tkomas  Rudyard,    de   Rudyard,    ar.,    Justic',  aVs 
Teteswortk. 
Ap.   Edwardus  Tkornebury,  de  Tkornebury.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.   Tkomas  Tirrell,  de  Ruskton,  gen.     Nothus. 
Entd.  Tkomas      Trentkam,     de     Rocester,     ar.,    Justic', 

Custos  Rotulor'. 
Georgius  Warner,  de  Dyllon,  Coronator.     Ignobilis. 
1  Jok'es  Wedgwood,  de  Harekells,  gen.,  per  R.  C, 
Clar',  dat.  1576,  19  Eliz.  reg. 

*  .  .  .  .  three  piles,  over  all  a  bend  ermine. 

f  Per  pale  nebulee  or  and  azure,  six  martlets,  2,  2,  and  2,  counterchanged. 
X  Argent,  a  fesse  vaire  or  and  gules  between  three  eagles  displayed  of  the  last. 
§  ....  a  griffin  segreant  ....  ||  See  "  Doubtful  Arms." 

^  Gules,  three  mullets,  1,  2,  and  1,  or,  a  cauton  argent.    Crest :  On  a  ducal 
coronet,  a  lion  statant  argent. 


8  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Joli'es  Wliitehurst,  de  Whithurst.     Ignobilis. 
Joh'es  Woodward,  de  Madersfeild.     Ignobilis. 

HuNDREDTJM    DE    PlREHILL. 

Walterus  Aston,  de  Ticksall,  Miles,  Justic'.  Recusavit. 
Edwardus  Aston,  ar.,  fil.  et  hseres  Walteri  Aston, 

Militis,  Justic'. 
Robertus  Badger,  de  Whatington.     Ignobilis, 
Entd.  Ricardus  Bagott,  de  Blythfeild,  ar.,  Justic'. 

Edwardus  Barbour  de  Flashbrooke.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.    Georgius  Bartram,  de  Barlaston,  gen.     Respited  to 
London. 
^"Sampson   Beresford,   de   Enston,   gen.     Ad  Com. 

Mariscall. 
Joli'es  Bedulplie,  de  Oldparke.     Ignobilis. 
Franciscus  Bidolplie,  de  Bydolphe,  ar. 
Will'us  Bowier,  de  Hetlihouse  Grange,  et  de  Brod- 
lieath,  gen. 
Entd.  Ap.    Will'us  Bowyer,  de  Knypersley,  ar. 

Ap.   Thomas   Bowyer,  de   Madeley,   gen.,   fr.    illius   de 
Knipersley. 
fEd'us  Braddock,  de  Adbaston,  ar.     Ad  Com.  Senes- 

callus, 
JEdwardus  Brett,  de  Kele,  ar. 
Ap.   Ranulphus  Brette,  de  Stoke,  gen.,  filius  Edwardi. 
Ap.    Thomas  Bratte,  de  Oswinton,  gen.,  s'd's  filius. 
Henricus  Brocke,  de  Hanley.     Ignobilis. 
Entd.  Ap.    Thomas  Broughton,  de  Broughton,  gen. 

Ap.   Johannes  Broughton,  de  Whatington.     Ignobilis. 
Thomas  Bucknall,  de  Ubbeley.     Ignobilis. 
§Joh'es  Chetwynd,  de  Ingestre,  ar.,  Justic'. 
Robertus  Collier,  de  Darlaston,  ar. 
|| Thomas  Corbett,  de  Hanford,  gen.     Sum'us  Con- 
stabidarius. 


*  Argent,  three  bears  rampant  sable,  muzzled  or. 
+  See  "  Doubtful  Arms."  J  lb. 

§  Two  shields  :  1.  On  a  cross  engrailed  ....  four  mullets.    2.  Azure,  a  chevron 
between  three  mullets  or.  ||  Argent,  three  ravens,  2  and  1,  proper. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  9 

Humfridus  Cotton,  de  Bothehall,  ar. 
Will'us  Crompton,  de  Stone.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.    Samson  Dorrington,  de  Cotton.     Ignobilis. 
Entd.  *Rad'us  Egerton,  de  Wrynehill,  Miles,  Justic'. 

Entd.  fRad'us  Eggerton,  de  Betley,  ar. 

Entd.  JHugo  Erdeswicke,  de  Sandon,  ar. 

Entd.  Ap.    J  Sampson  Erdeswick,  de  Sandon,  gen. 
§Robertus  Comes  Essex. 
Ap.   Hugo  Fowden,  de  Fulford,  summus  Constabularius. 
Ignobilis. 
Brianus  Fowler,  de  Sl  Thomas,  juxta  Stafford,  ar. 
Ap.   Rob'tus  Gamble,  de  Hardwyke.     Ignobilis. 

||Franciscus  Gattacre,  de  Swynnerton,  ar.     Hors  du 

pays. 
Johannes  Gaywood,  de  [Padmore?].     Ignobilis. 
Nicholas  Gaywood,  de  Bishops  Offeley,  gen. 
Joh'es  Gervys,  de  Chatkill,  gen.,  Coronator.     Igno- 
bilis. 
Entd.  Thomas  Greseley,  de  Colton,  ar.,  Justic'. 

Entd.  Walterus  Harecourt,  de  Ellenhall,  ar. 

Joh'es  Harecourt,  de  Ranton,  gen.     Nothus. 
Ap.   %  Walterus  Heveningham,  de  Aston,  ar.     Respited  to 
London. 
Entd.  Ap.   Will'us  Macksfeild,  de  Meare,  gen. 
Entd.  Edwardus  Mainwayringe,  of  Whitmore,  ar. 

** Joh'es  Nedham,  de  Wallinge,  gen. 
Entd.  Ap.    t1"Philippus  Noell,  de  Hilcott,  gen. 


*  Gules,  a  fesse  ermine  between  three  pheons  argent. 

t  The  same,  a  crescent  for  difference. 

X  Or,  on  a  bend  azure  three  eagles  displayed  argent.  This  is  a  strange  mistake. 
Both  Hugh  and  Sampson  Erdeswick  really  bore  Argent,  on  a  chevron  gules  five 
bezants. 

§  Argent,  a  fesse  gules,  in  chief  three  torteaux. 

||  Quarterly  argent  and  ermine,  on  the  second  and  third  quarters  two  piles  gules, 
over  all  a  fesse  azure  charged  with  three  bezants.  (Sic,  but  the  trick  does  not 
appear  to  be  quite  accurate.) 

%  Quarterly  or  and  gules,  within  a  border  engrailed  sable  charged  with  roundles 
(sic,  but  should  be  escallops  argent),  a  crescent  for  difference. 
**  Argent,  a  bend  engrailed  azure  between  two  buck's  heads  cabossed  sable, 
ft  Or,  fretty  gules,  a  canton  argent. 


10  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Ap.   Joli'es  Orchard,  de  Garsall,  yeoman.     Ignobilis. 
Will'us  Overton,  Coventrise  et  Leclifeild  Ep'us. 
Thomas  Pettit,  de  Hexstall  et  de  Broadheath,  gen. 
Henricus  Pettit,  de  Bromley  Pagetts,  gen. 
^Thomas  Pey shall,  de  Horseley,  ar.     Hors  du  pays. 
Rob'tus  Peyshall,  de  Horseley,  gen.,  frater  junior. 
Entd.  fPetrus  Roos,  de  Swineshed,  ar.     Extra  Com. 

Ap.    Thomas  Rowley,  de  Heyckley.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.   Thomas  Skrimshere,  de  Johnson,  gen. 

Rad'us  Smyth,  de  Newcastle  under  Lyme,  gen.,  aVs 

Torbocke. 
JRad's  Sneyde,  de  Brad  wall,  ar.,  Justic'. 
Georgius  Sneyde,  de  Madeley,  gen.,  frater. 
§Edwardus  Swynnerton,  de  Ecclesall,  gen.  "1  Hors  du 
Hugo  Swinnerton,  de  Ecclesall,  filius.  I    pays. 

Entd.  Ap.   Rad's  Thicknes,  de  Balterley,  gen. 

Ap.   Will'us   Unwyn,   de   Chahterley,   gen.     Respited  to 
London. 
Thomas  Unwyn,  de  Clough,  gen. 
Ap.    Will'us    Vyse,    de     Staundon,     gen.      Respited    to 
London. 
Sampson  Walkden,  de  Walton,  gen.         J£§ 
Ap.    Sampson  Walker,  de  Weston.     Ignobilis. 

Thomas  Whitgreve,  de  Bridgford,  gen.     Ad  Com. 

Mariscallum. 
Thomas  Whitmore,  de  Madeley.     Ignobilis. 
|| Erasmus  Wolsey,  de  Wolsey,  in  Hundredo  de  Cud- 

dleston,  ar. 
Joh'es  Woolriche,  de  Oncott.     Ignobilis. 
Will'us  Yardley,  de  Audley,  gen.      Respited  to  Sr 

Ralph  Edgerton's. 
Joh'es  Yonge,  de  Charnes.     Ignobilis. 

*  Argent,  a  cross  forinee  flory  sable,  on  a  canton  gules  a  wolf's  head  erased 
of  the  first. 

t  See  "  Doubtful  Arms." 

%  A  scythe  in  bend  sinister  ....  between  the  blade  and  the  handle,  (or  "  snead,") 
a  fleur-de-lis. 

§  See  "  Doubtful  Arms." 

||  Argent,  a  talbot  passant  gules. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  11 

HuNDREDUM    DE    SeYSDON. 

"^Gilbertus  Astley,  de  Patteshill,  ar. 

Rad's  Broke,  de  Bobington,  gen. 

Joh'es  Ores  wall,  de  Wolv'hampton,  gen. 
Entd.  Ap.   Will'us  Dickens,  de  Bobington,  gen. 

Jacobus  Fowler,  de  Penford,  gen. 
Ap.    Will'us  Foxall,  de  Bilson,  yeoman. 

fJoh'es  Grey,  de  Envill,  ar.,  Vicecomes,  Justic'. 

Walterus  Grosvenor,  de  Bushbury,  ar. 

Philippus   Hall,    de    ....  gen.,    su'mus    Constabu- 
larius.     Ignobilis. 

Will'us  How,  de  Bradley.     Ignobilis. 
Ap.   Thomas  Leveson,  de  Wolv'hampton,  ar. 

Rob'tus  Moseley,  de  Bilston,  gen. 
Entd.  Ap.   Henricus  Plantney,  de  Wolverhampton,  gen. 

Thomas  Rickthorne,  de  Bobington,  gen. 

JThomas  Waring,  de  la  Lea,  juxta  Wolv'hampton, 
Justic'. 

Thomas  Whorwood,  de  Compton,  ar. 
Entd.  Ap.    Will'us  Whorwood,  de  Bobington,  gen. 

Walterus  Wrottesley,  de  Wrottesley. 


The    form    of    the   warrant    of    summons   against   such    as 

contemptuously    refuse    to    appear    upon 

the  former  warrant,  to  make    their 

further  appearance  before  the 

Earl  Marshall. 

To  Mr.  A.  B.,  of  .  .  .  . ,  Esquier. 
Forasmuch  as  you  have  refused  to  make  your  apearance 
before  mee,  Somersett,  Marshall  to  Norroy  Kinge  of  Armes,  at 
Chedle,  whereat  I  lately  sate  in  comission  for  the  registringe 
of  the  Gentlemen  w'thin  the  Hundred  of  Totmonslowe 
accordinge  to  such  warninge  as  was  given  you  by  the  Baylife 

*  See  "  Doubtful  Arms." 

t  John  Grey  was  Sheriff  24  Eliz.     (Shaio.) 

X  Sable,  three  bird's  heads  erased  argent. 


12  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

of  the  same  Hundred  in  that  behaulf,  I  am  of  dutye  to  proceed 
wth  you  as  my  Comissyon  byndeth  mee  in  such  cases  of  con- 
tempte.  These  are,  therefore,  to  require  you,  and  in  the 
Queene's  Maties  name  to  charge  and  comaunde  you  to  apeare 
personally  before  the  Eight  Honorable  George  Earle  of 
Shrewsbury,  Earle  Marshall  of  Ingland,  on  the  12th  day  of 
October  nexte  ensuinge  the  date  hereof,  there  to  answere  unto 
and  yelde  the  reason  of  this  youre  disobedyence  and  contempte ; 
before  whome  (as  by  an  espetyall  clause  and  braunche  of  my 
sayde  Comissyon  it  is  ordered)  the  same  is  to  be  hearde  and 
determined.  And  herof  fayle  you  not,  as  you  will  avoyde  the 
further  perill  that  may  enseue. 

Gyven  at  under  the  seale  of  the  office  of 

Norrey,  the  day  of  August,  An0  D'ni  1583, 

in    the    25th   ye  are   of    the    raigne    of    our    most 
gratious  Soveraigne  Lady  Queene  Elizabeth. 


The  manner  of  the  Heralds'  Proclamation 

for  the  disclaiming  of 

IGNOBLE   persons. 

The  Queene's  most  excellent  matie  beinge  very  desirous  that 
the  Nobillitye  and  Gentry  of  this  her  realme  should  be  pre- 
served in  every  degree  as  apertayneth  as  well  in  honor  as 
in  worshippe ;  and  that  every  person  and  persons,  bodyes 
pollitique,  corporate,  and  others,  should  be  knowne  in  their 
estates  and  misteryes  without  confusyon  and  disorder.  And 
having  therfore  authorised  me,  Somersette  Heralde,  as 
Marshall  and  Deputy  to  JSTorroy  Kinge  of  Arms  of  the  North 
parties  of  this  Realme  of  Englande,  not  onely  to  visite  all  the 
sayde  province  to  peruse  and  take  knowledge,  survey,  and 
vewe  of  all  manner  of  Armes,  Cognisances,  Creasts,  and  other 
like  devises,  wlh  the  notes  of  the  descentes,  pedegres,  and 
marriadges  of  all  the  Nobillitie  and  Gentry  therin  throughout 
conteyned,  but  alsoe  to  reprove,  controll,  and  make  infamous 
by  Proclamatyon  all  such  as  unlawfully,  and  wthout  just 
authoritye,  vocatyon,  or  due  callinge,   doe   or   have  done,  or 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  13 

shall  usurpe,  or  take  upon  him  or  them  any  name  or  tytle  of 
honor  or  dignitye,  as  Esqr,  or  Gentleman,  or  other,  as  by  her 
Highnes'  gratious  l'res  patentes  and  comission  under  the  greate 
seale  of  England,  more  plainly  doth  apeare :  Know  ye  that  I, 
the  sayd  Somersett,  for  the  accomplishment  of  her  Maties 
desire,  and  furtherance  of  her  Highnesse  service  that  waye, 
at  this  present  makinge  my  survey  wthin  the  Hundred 
of  Pirehill,  in  the  county  of  Stafforde,  have  founde  these 
persons,  whose  names  are  hereunder  written,  preasumptuously, 
wthout  any  ground  or  authoritie,  to  have  usurped  the  name  and 
tytle  of  Gent,  contrary  to  all  righte  and  to  the  most  auncient 
custome  of  this  lande,  and  to  the  usage  of  the  lawe  of  Amies : 
wch  name  and  tytle  they  are  by  me  admonished  noe  more  from 
henceforth  to  use  or  take  upon  them,  upon  such  further  paine 
and  perill  as  by  the  Earle  Marshall  of  Englande  is  to  be 
inflicted  or  layde  upon  them.  And  for  that  purpose  the 
Sherife,  and  Clarkes  of  the  Assises,  and  of  the  Peace,  of  this 
Countie  are  by  me  to  be  admonished  to  forbeare  herafter  to 
write  or  call  them  by  that  name  and  tytle ;  wherof  alsoe,  as 
my  comission  byndeth  mee,  I  thought  good  hereby  to  advertise 
all  other  her  Maties  good  and  lovinge  subjects  of  this  Hundred, 
that  as  they  tender  her  Highnes'  pleasure  and  desire  in  this 
behalf,  they  from  henceforth  shunne  and  avoyde  the  like,  and 
forbeare  to  use  in  any  writinge  or  otherwise,  the  addityon  of  an 
Esq''  or  Gentleman  unlesse  they  be  able  to  stand  unto  and  Justine 
the  same  by  the  lawe  of  Armes,  and  the  lawe  of  the  Realme. 

Geven  at  Newcastle  under  Lyme  under  the  seale  of  the 
office  of  Norroy,  the  day  of  Auguste,  An0 1583. 


14  the  visitation  of  staffordshire,  a.d.  1583. 

The   Names   of   those    that   in   the    time   of   this 

vlsitacon    of    staffordsheire    have    made    noe 

proofe  of  theire  gentry,  bearinge  noe  armes, 

and  yet,  before  tyme,  had  called  and 

written  themselves  gentlemen,  and 

were  therfore  disclaymed  in  the 

cheife  places  of  the  hundreds 

wherin  they  dwell, 

VIZT, 
PlREHILL, 

Disclaimed  at  Newcastle  under  Lyme,  and  at  Stone,  the  5th 
and  6th  dayes  of  August,  for  the  Hundred  of  Pirehill  in  Com. 
Staff,  these  followinge,  viz. : — 

John  Orcharde,  of  Garsall. 

Thomas  Rowley,  of  Heykley. 

Robte.  Gamble,  of  Hardewyke. 

John  Yonge,  of  Charnes. 

Robte.  Badger,  of  Whatington. 

Thomas  Pettit,  of  Hexstall.    .Jgf 

Thomas  Bucknall,  of  Ubbelley. 

Henry  Pettyt,  of  Bromley  Pagetts.    .Jgfl 

Edw.  Barbour,  of  Flotesbrooke. 

John  Gaywoode,  of  Padmore. 

Hugh  Fowden,  of  Fulford. 

Sampson  Walker,  of  Weston. 

John  Broughton,  of  Whatington. 

John  Bedle,  of  Olde  Parke. 

John  Gervis,  of  Chatkill. 

John  Woolriche,  of  Oncott. 

Thomas  Whitemore,  of  Madeley. 

Henry  Brocke,  of  Hanley. 

Nicholas  Gaywood,  of  Bishoppes  Offley. 

TOTMONSLOWE, 

Disclaymed  at  Utoxetur  the  viij1'1  day  of  August  for  the 
Hundred  of  Totmonslowe,  in  the  countie  of  Stafforde,  these 
followinge,  viz* :  — 

Richard  Flyar,  of  Utoxetur. 

Thomas  Madeley,  of  Denston. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  15 

John  Porte,  of  Ham. 
Henry  Flackette,  of  Cambridge. 
John  Woodward,  of  Maderfeilde. 
Thomas  Parker,  of  Creswall. 
John  Hig'ginbotham,  of  Rushton. 
Bartholomew  Colclugh,  of  Delphurst. 
Thomas  Pyot,  of  Chedle. 
Edward  Thornbury,  of  Thornebury. 
John  Henshawe,  of  Lockwood. 
John  Basford,  of  Hilsdale. 
Anthony  Eyton,  of  Mathfeild. 
Tho.  Homersley,  of  Shawe. 
Will'm  Momford,  of  Banke. 
John  Ashenhnrst,  of  Ashenhurst. 
John  Wliitehurste,  of  Whithurst. 
Hugh  Holly ns,  of  Moseley. 
John  Feme,  of  Crakemarshe. 
Willyam  Crompton,  of  Stone. 


Offelowe. 

These  followinge  of  the  Hundred  of  Offelowe,  in  the 
countye  of  Stafford,  were  disclaymed  at  Leichfeilde  on 
Wensday  the  xiiijth  day  of  August  1583,  viz. : — 

Henry  Grove,  of  Handesworth. 
Thomas  Frithe,  of  Thornes. 
John  Parshouse,  of  Walsall. 
Edward  Sjsrott,  of  Ashmerebroke. 
Humfrey  Thickbrome,  of  Thickbrome. 

Setsdon. 

These  followinge  of  the  hundred  of  Seisdon  were  dis- 
claimed at  Wolv'hampton  on  fryday  the  xvith  day  of  Auguste, 
1583  :— 

Phillippe  Hall,  of 

Will'm  Foxall,  of  Bilston. 
Will'm  Howe,  of  Bradley. 


16  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    15S3. 

James  Barnesley,  of  Trisley. 
*Humfry  Whitwike,  of  Wliitwike. 

CUDDLESTON. 

These  followinge  of  the  hundred  of  Cudleston  in  the  county 
of  Stafford  were  disclaymed  at  Stafford  on  the  21st  day  of 
August  1583,  viz. : — 

John  Astley,  of  Woodeaton. 

Edward  Clerke,  of  Shredicotte. 

Richard  Dickenson,  of  Bradley. 

Frauncis  Picto,  of  Churcheaton. 

Will'm  Fynny,  of  Canke. 

John  Egginton,  of  Roberson. 

*  Opposite  this  name  in  Harl.  MS.  1429,  is  written,  "This  Gent,  aproved 
himselfe  to  he  of  good  antiquity  and  of  a  good  and  auneient  family."  As  the  name 
of  Humphrey  Wigbtwiok  does  not  appear  in  the  list  of  those  summoned,  Glover 
would  seem  to  have  gone  out  of  his  way  to  brand  him  as  "  Ignobilis."  The 
Heralds  sometimes  made  mistakes  of  this  kind.  At  the  Visitation  of  Derbyshire  in 
1611,  Stephen  Langsdon  of  Langsdon  in  that  shire  was  disclaimed,  but  he  was  sub- 
sequently admitted  to  be  a  gentleman  and  to  have  a  right  to  arms.  The  following 
certificate  by  St.  George,  Norroy  (extracted  from  Harl.  MS.  1470),  so  curiously 
illustrates  this  subject  that  I  make  no  apology  for  introducing  it  here: — "The 
king's  most  excellent  Matie  being  desirous  that  ye  Gentry  of  his  kingdom  might  be 
preserved  in  every  degree,  estate,  etc.,  and  to  that  end  hath  given  full  power  and 
authority  under  the  Greate  Seale  of  England  unto  mee,  Richard  S'  George,  Norroy 
King  of  Armes,  not  only  to  summon  all  the  Gentlemen  w'th  in  my  Province,  but  also 
to  distinguish  and  make  infamous  by  Proclamation  all  such  as  shall  usurpe  or  take 
upon  thorn  the  name  of  Esquire  or  Gentleman  without  just  authority.  And 
whereas  Stephen  Longsdon,  of  Longsdon,  in  co.  Derby,  appeared  before  me  in  my 
Visitacon  and  disclaimed  the  title  of  a  gentleman  under  his  hand,  as  not  knowing 
how  he  might  justifio  the  same,  I  proceeded  against  him  according  to  my  Com'ission. 
Since  wch  tymo,  he,  making  further  inquiry,  and  finding  that  his  Auncestors  have 
been  of  long  time  reputed  Gentlemen  and  borne  Amies,  wch  (as  I  am  informed  by 
some  of  good  sort  in  the  Contrey)  he  is  able  to  prove  by  evidence  and  other  good 
record,  he  hath  desired  me  to  aflirme  his  right  and  publish  the  same.  "Wherefore 
these  are  to  make  knowne  unto  all  manner  of  p'sons  whatsoever  that  the  said 
Stephen  Langsdon  may  lawfully  use  and  bear  such  Armes  and  Creasts  as  his 
Auncestors  have  done  before  him,  and  as  he  may  lawfully  justifie  ;  And  also  that  it 
shal  be  lawful]  for  him  to  beare  the  name,  title,  and  dignity  of  a  Gentleman  in  such 
manner  and  forme  as  any  of  his  predecessors  have  done,  or  as  he  may  lawfully 
justifie.  In  witness  whereof  I  the  said  Norroy  King  of  Armes  have  sett  to  my 
hand  and  seale  of  my  office.  Dated  the  xxth  clay  of  November  in  the  ixth  yeare  of 
o'r  Sovereigne  Lord  James  by  the  grace  of  God  King  of  Great  Prittaign,  Prance, 
and  Ireland.     Rich :  Sl  George,  Norroy  King  of  Armes." 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.   1583.  17 

Richard  Milles,  of  Betham. 
John  Coleman;  of  Canke. 

The  names  being  wrytten  on  a  sheet  of  papere  with  fayer 
great  letters,  was  caryed  by  the  Baylyfe  of  the  hundred  and 
one  of  the  Herauld's  men  to  the  cheife  towne  of  that  hundred, 
where  in  the  cheife  place  therof,  the  Herauld's  man  redd  the 
names  (after  crye  made  by  the  Bay  lye  and  the  people  gathered) 
and  then  pronounced  openly  by  the  sayd  Baylye  every  man's 
name  severally  conteyned  in  the  sayd  bill.  That  done  the 
Baylie  set  the  sayd  byll  of  names  on  a  poste,  faste  with  waxe, 
whear  it  may  stand  drye,  so  it  bee,  as  aforesayd,  in  the 
chieffest  place  of  the  sayd  towne. 


Staffordshire. 

Secunda  Solucio  Subsidij  anno   regni   D'nce  Elizabethan 
nunc  xviij0  a  laicis  concess'. 


Beginc 


Hundredu'  de  Pteehill. 

li. 

s. 

d. 

a 

a 

13  u 

M  o 

W 

Aston  et  Burston. 

Dorothea    Heveningham, 
in  terr' 

XX 

J 

j 

Bedull,  Bucknall, 

Frauciscus  Byddolph,  ar., 

XX 

J 

j 

et  Fenton. 

in  terr' 

Blithefeld. 

Bic'us  Bagot,  ar.,  in  terris 

XX 

i 

3 

Chebsey. 

Erasmus      Wolseley,     in 
terris 

xiij 

VJ 

viij 

ij 

Colton. 

D'na    Catherina    G-reys- 
ley,  in  terr' 

X 

ij 

Eccleshall  Home. 

Franciscus  Bosse,  ar.,  in 
terris 

XXX 

j 

3 

Thomas  Persall,  in  terris 

XX 

i 

3 

Edward  Barbour,  in  terris 

X 

ij 

Thomas      Skrimsher,     in 

X 

ij 

terris 

Hopton  et  C  otton. 

Brian  Fowler, ar., in  terris 

xxvj 

xiij 

viij 

j 

Kebuston. 

Thomas  Busby,  in  bonis 

XX 

ij 

Keele. 

Edward  Brette,  in  terris 

X 

ij 

Meare,  Aston. 

Bad's  Maxfeild,  in  terris 

X 

ij 

18 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.  1583. 


li.       s.      d. 

Pencle  cu'  Mem-     Bad's  Bagnall,  miles,  in  xl 
bris.                    terris 

Anthonius    Colclugh,   in  x 

terris 

Sondon.                     Hugo  Erdeswike,  in  terris  xx 

Tonstall  Courte.       Bad's  Sneyde,ar.,  in  terris  xv 

D'na  Sneyde,  in  terris  xv 

Tyxall.                      "Walterus  Aston,  miles  c 

Trentham.                 D'na  Leveson,  in  terris  x 

Thomas   Fytton,    ar.,    in  x 

terris 

"Whitmore  et  Han-   Edward  Maynwaring,  in  x 


.1      y 


3        3 

ij 

y 

ij     "ij 

ij 

ij 

cliurche. 


terris 


HlTNDREDU'    DE    SETSDON. 

Wolv'hampton.         Thomas  Leveson,  ar.,  in      xiij     vj  viij 

terris 
Henricus   Panckeney,  in      xiij     vj  viij 

bonis 
Patsell.  Gilbert    Astley,    ar.,    in        xx 

terris 
"Wrottesley.  Johannes  "Wrottesley,  ar.,        xx 

in  terris 
Enveild.  Johannes    Grey,   ar.,  in   xxviij 

terris 
Bobington.  Bad's  Broke,  in  terris  x 

Kynvare.  Thomas   Whorwood,   ar.,        xx 

in  terris 


Brewood. 


Hilton. 


HTJNDREDUM   DE    CUDDLESTON. 

D'na  Ursula  Giffard,  in        xv 

terris 
Johannes  Giffard,  ar.,  in        xx 

terris 
Thomas     Lane,     ar.,    in        xv 

terris 
Galfridus   Somerford,   in  x 

terris 
Vidua  Vernon,  in  terris  x 


THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


19 


li.       s.      d. 
Meere  et  Eorton.     Thomas    Skrymslier,   ar.,  x 

in  terris 
Norbury.  Jacobus   Skrymslier,   ar.,  x 

in  terris 
Stretton.  Eranciscus  Congreve,  ar.,  x 

in  terris 
"Weston      subtus     Johannes  Mytton,  ar.,  in     siiij 
Liziat.  terris 


ii 


HuNDREDUM   DE   ToTMANTSLOWE. 

Loxley.  Thomas  Kynnersley,  ar.,         x 

in  terris 
Ham'.  Philippus  Okover,  ar.,  in      xiij     vj  viij 

terris 
Mathfeld.  Sampson  Meverell,  ar.,  in       xx 

terris 
Rocett'.  Thomas  Trentham,  ar.,  in        xx 

terris 
Ellaston.  Johannes   Fletwood,   ar.,        xx 

in  terris 
Grryndon.  "Will'm's  Bassett,  ar.,  in     xxx 

terris 
Draycott.  Johannes   Draycott,    ar.,      xxx 

in  terris 

Burgus  de  Stafford,  nihil. 
Civitas  Lichefeld,  nihil. 


HUNDREDUM   DE    OFFELOWE. 

Dunstable,  Taten-    Roulandus    Bougley,    in       xx 

hill,  et  Coling-        terris 

wood. 
Stotfeld.  Humfridus    "Wolverston,  x 

in  terris 
Hinteys.  Edwardus  Basset,  in  terris        xv 

Hampstall     Rid-     Thomas     Eitz     Herbert,         xl 

ware.  miles,  in  terris 

Toxall.  Simon     Arden,     ar.,     in  x 

terris 


C  2 


20 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


II.      s. 
X 


d. 


"Wygginton.  Thomas    Cumberford,   in 

terris 
Eysherwicke.  Johannes  Skevington,  in        xv 

terris 
Hondesworthe.         Thomas   Wyrley,  ar.,  in        xx 

terris 
Henry  Groves,  in  terris  x 

"Walsall  Foreyne.     Franciscus  Montford,  in  x 

terris 
"Weforde  et  Thick-     Humfridus    Thickbrome,      xiij     vj  viij 

brome.  in  bonis 

Elford.  Johannes   Bowes,  ar.,  in     xxvj  xiij    iiij 

terris 
Pyry  Barre.  Robertus    Stamford,   ar.,        xx 

in  terris 
Drayton  Basset.       Thomas      Robinson,      in          x 

terris 
Pype  cum  Mem-     Edward  Sprott,  in  terris  x 

bris. 

Launces  .. 


Lighthorses  iiijxxxix 


cxxmj 


Nomina   et   Arma    nobiliu'   et    equitu'    auratoru'    de    com' 

Stafford  qui  cum  Ed.  I.,  rege,  stipendia  merebant 

in  Scotia  et  alibi.* 


Sr  Robert  de  Hastange. 
Sr  John  de  Hastange. 


Azure,   a  chief  gules,  over  all  a 

lion  rampant  or. 
The    same    arms,   with  a     label 

argent. 


*  These  shields  of  the  Knights  of  "  Estaffordeschire "  were  taken  from  an 
ancient  Roll,  the  original  of  which  is  still  preserved  among  the  Cotton  Mann- 
scripts  in  the  British  Museum.  It  is  headed  "  Ces  sunt  les  Noms  c  les  Armes  a 
Banerez  de  Engleterre,"  and  contains  the  arms  of  the  said  knights  blazoned  in 
French  and  arranged  under  counties.  Sir  Harris  Nicolas,  under  whose  able  editor- 
ship the  entire  Roll  was  published  in  1829,  dates  it  between  the  second  and  seventh 
years  of  Edward  II.  This,  he  says,  is  "  manifest  from  internal  evidence,  and  the 
handwriting  is  undoubtedly  of  that  age."  The  same  Roll  had  been  previously 
printed  by  Sir  Francis  Pal  grave  in  the  volume  of  Parliamentary  "Writs  edited  by 


PLATE  1. 


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gttimm  (Jo:j:i^^i#*uiiam*t$mtit 

iuj^ailaaetaliH. 


XiajShinge,         lia^ittn^t.       Tia£tauj&A       Tia£Un$e. 


H^tun^.         5f?plefotte.       maS'htetS.        m*$ltxt*%$, 


^Staalato*.        .HppUbeg.        TEleg*^  Farafyam- 


Big*. 


ffarry  Soane.  ffmddu £?iyavfr .C  London 


THE    VISITATION   OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Sr  Bobert  de  Hastange. 
S1'  Richard  de  Hastange. 


21 


Sr  Pliillippe  de  Hastange. 

Sr  Eob't  de  Stepletone. 

S1'  William  Wastneis. 

Sr  Ednionde  Wasteneys. 

Sr  Rafe  de  Stanlawe. 

Sr  Henry  de  Applebey. 
Sr  William  de  Weyer. 

Sire  Rob'te  de  Farnham. 

Sr  Thomas  de  la  Pipe. 


Azure,  a  chief  gules,   over  all  a 

lion  rampant  double  tailed  or. 
Azure,  a  chief   gules,  over  all  a 

lion    rampant    or,    a    bendlet 

argent.* 
Azure,  a  chief   gules    and  a  lion 

rampant  argent. 
Azure,    a    lion    rampant    double 

tailed  or. 
Sable,  a    lion    rampant    argent, 

collared  gules. 
Sable,    a    lion     rampant   double 

tailed  argent. 
Argent,   a  lion    rampant    sable, 

the  tail  forked  and  nowed. 
Azure,  six  martlets,  3,  2,  and  1,  or. 
Argent,  a  fessef  between  three 

crescents  gules. 
Quarterly  argent  and  azure,  four 

crescents  counterchanged. 
Azure,  seme  de  cross-crosslets,  a 

fesse  or.  J 


Arma  Nobilium  de  Com.  Stafford,  ex  libro  antiquo  in 
officio  armorum.§ 

Le  Conte  de  Stafford.  Or,  a  chevron  gules. 

Sr  Richard  de  Stafford.  Or,  a  chevron  gules  between  three 

martlets  sable. 

him  under  the  authority  of  the  Record  Commission.  The  spelling  of  the  names  in 
the  Stukeley  MS.  does  not  in  every  instance  exactly  correspond  with  that  of  the 
original  Roll,  and  the  arms  are  in  "  trick,"  but  I  have  here  reduced  them  to  modern 
blazon,  and  preserved  the  orthography  of  the  Visitation. 

*  In  the  original  Roll  "  un  bastoun." 

t  The  word  fesse  has  been  subsequently  added  (in  the  original  Roll)  in  place 
of  one  which  was  erased.     (Nicolas.) 

X  This  entry  in  the  original  Roll  is  "  in  another  but  apparently  an  early  hand." 
(Nicolas.) 

§  Whether  this  "  liber  antiquus  "  still  remains  in  the  College  of  Arms  I  have 
not  ascertained,  but  this  list  is  given  in  all,  or  nearly  all,  the  existing  copies  of  the 
Visitation.  Erdeswick  possessed  a  copy  and  so  did  Wyrley.  The  latter  dates  it 
"aut  finem  regis  Ed.  tertii,  aut  incipient,  regis  Ri.  secundi,  ut  opinor."    The 


22 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,   A.D.    1583. 


S>-  Nicholas  de  Stafford. 

Sr  Humphrey  de  Stafford. 

Le  Sieur  de  Audley. 
Le  Baron  de  Dudley. 

Le  Sieur  Bassett. 

Sr  Foulco  de  Penbrugge. 
Sr  Thomas  de  Arderne. 

Penbrugge. 

Sr  Eoger  Illary. 

Sr  Walter  de  Audley. 


*Sr  Thomas  Cawne. 

Sr  John  Bagott. 
Sr  Gyles  Erdinton.f 


Or,  a  chevron  gules,  a  chief 
azure. 

Or,  a  chevron  gules  within  a 
border  engrailed  sable. 

Gules,  fretty  or. 

Quarterly  :  1  and  4,  Or,  two  lions 
passant  in  pale  azure ;  2  and 
3,  Argent,  a  cross  patonce  azure. 

Or,  three  piles  gules,  a  canton 
ermine. 

Barry  of  six  or  and  azure. 

Gules,  six  crosses  crosslet  fitche, 
3,  2,  and  1,  and  a  chief  or. 

Barry  or  and  azure. 

Sable,  a  fleur-de-lis  or. 

Gules,  fretty  or,  a  border  argent 
charged  with  fleurs-de-lis  and 
crosses  crosslet  fitche  alter- 
nately, sable. 

Per  pale  argent  ("  forsan  fuit 
azure  ")  and  gules,  a  lion  ram- 
pant double  tailed  of  the 
first. 

Argent,  a  chevron  gules  between 
three  martlets  sable. 

....    three    (sic)  lions  passant 


former  refers  to  it  in  these  words  :  "  I  have  myself  the  copy  of  a  Roll  of  Armory, 
intituled,  '  Arma  Nobilium  de  Com.  Staff.,'  where  it  is  said  that  le  Counte  de 
Stafford  post  de  or,  a  une  cheveron  de  gules ;  and  not  far  after  it  saith  '  Antiquiora 
insignia  de  Audele,  Azure,  trois  choisers,  or  butterflies,  de  argent ;  and  Monsieur 
John  de  Chandose  port  de  argent  a  une  pile  de  gules  ;'  whereby  it  appeareth  that 
the  said  Roll  was  made  in  the  time  of  Edward  III."  (Edit.  1844,  p.  102.)  From 
this  it  appears  that  Erdeswick's  copy  was  in  blazon. 

*  This  shield  is  blank  in  Harl.  MS.  6128,  and  also  in  Lord  Hatherton's  MS. 
Vide  post. 

f  After  the  marriage  of  Henry  de  Erdiugton  with  Maud,  daughter  of  Roger  de 
Somerie,  the  Erdingtons  bore  Azure,  two  lions  passant  or — the  Somerie  coat  with 
the  colours  reversed.  In  the  Roll  of  temp.  Edw.  II.,  Sir  Henry  de  Erdiugton 
bears  the  coat  within  a  border  gules.  And,  according  to  Dugdale,  Sir  Giles  de 
Erdiugton,  who  died  49  Edw.  III.,  bore  for  his  arms  a  bend  over  his  two  lions. 


PLATE  2 


j^mal^Kltum  lie 
Qpm.  j3taffo*o,  tpc  iitoa 
atttiqtu)  iu  officio  atmowra. 


jSfaff  orb.         .Staff  orb.       ^tafforb.        £iafforb 


JHubleg.        DttbHe|).         3as?rtt         T'rabnigse. 


.J-uBl,    jtiO\    ,/OCrL 


JIuMeg. 


T^a^otf  ^[rburtwu        Cj&foue  Berton. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583 

S1'  Thomas  Cawne. 


23 


S1'  Jolin  Perton. 


Sr  Walter  de  Bentley. 
Sr  Robert  de  Swinnerton. 

Sr  William  Newport. 


Per  pale  azure  and  gules,  a 
lion  rampant  double  tailed 
argent. 

Azure,  on  a  chevron  gules  be- 
tween three  pears  pendent  or, 
as  many  bezants. 

Argent,  a  chevron  gules. 

Argent,  a  cross  forme  flore 
sable. 

Gules,  on  a  canton  sable  a  fleur- 
de-lis  argent. 
Audley    jadis. — In  margin    Azure,  three  butterflies  argent. 
"  Antiquiora    Arma     de 
Audley." 

Argent,  on  a  fesse  cottised  sable 
three  escallops  of  the  field. 

Argent,  a  pile  gules. 

Sable,  a  fesse  between  six  mart- 
lets argent. 

Azure,  a  chevron  between  three 
ewers  or. 

Argent,  two  bars  each  cottised 
sable. 

Vaire  argent  gutte  de  poix  and 
gules. 

Argent,  two  bars  gules  within  a 
border  engrailed  sable. 

Argent,  a  fesse  and  in  chief  three 
lozenges  sable. 

Argent,  on  a  chevron  gules  be- 
tween three  cinquefoils  azure, 
as  many  bezants. 

Bendy  or  and  sable. 

Sable,  a  chevron  engrailed  between 
three  owls  ardent. 


Sr  Henry  Bushbury. 

Sr  John  Chaundois. 
Sr  John  de  Hyde. 

Sr  Edward  Butler. 

SL'  Peirs  de  Cariswall. 

Gresley. 

*Sr  Benet  de  Sutton. 

Sr  Eoger  de  Aston. 

Sr  John  de  Hampton. f 


William  Bentley. 
John  Hewet. 


*  Tn  Harl.  MS.  1570,  "Sir  ...  .  Bennet,  de  Sutton,"  which  is  probably 
correct,  the  coat  being  that  of  Bennet,  not  Sutton. 

t  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.  and  Harl.  MS.  1570  add  the  crest,  A  wolf's  head 
couped  sable. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


*Harry  Harville. 
William  de  Strettay. 
John  de  Swinerton. 

Nicholas  de  Ruggeley, 


Sr  Thomas  de  Aston. 
Sr  Richard  de  Verdon. 

tSr  John  de  Touchet. 

JS1'  Thomas  Mawreward. 

Sr  Jacob  de  Pype.§ 

Sr  Thomas  de  Tamhorne. 

Sr  Robert  Mawissin. 

S'  Thomas  Beeke. 

Sr  John  Gyffard.f 

Sr  Hugh  Wrottesbury  ** 

Sr  John  Grendon. 

Sr  Geffrey  Congreve.ft 


Argent,  two  lions  passant  in  pale 

sable,  crowned  or. 
Argent,  three    buck's  heads  ca- 

bossed  or  attired  gules. 
Argent,  a  cross  forme  flory  sable 

within      a     border     engrailed 

gules. 
Argent,     on     a     chevron     sable 

three    pierced  mullets    of  the 

field.     Crest :    A    stag's    head 

erased  or. 
A  blank  shield. 
Argent,  fretty  sable,  on  a  canton 

gules  a  martlet  of  the  first. 
A  blank  shield. 
A  blank  shield. 
A  blank  shield. 
A  blank  shield. 
Bendy  gules  and  argent. 
Gules,  a  cross  ermine. 
Or,  a  cross  engrailed  sable. 
Or,  three    piles   sable,    a    canton 

ermine. 
A  blank  shield. 
A  blank  shield. 


*  Harl.  MS.  6128  and  other  MSS.  give  the  field  sable  and  the  lions  argent, 
and  it  was  so  quartered  by  Comberford.     See  Harl.  MS.  1439,  etc. 

t  Ermine,  a  chevron  gules.     (Harl.  MS.  6128.) 

X  "  Shaweward  "  in  Harl.  MS.  1570. 

§  James  in  Harl.  MS.  6128,  where  the  following  arms  are  given — Azure, 
crusuly  or,  two  pipes  conjoined  in  chevron  of  the  last.  Erdeswick  says  that  "  Sir 
James  de  Pipe,  who  lived  28  Edw.  III.,  sealed  with  a  chevron  in  a  bordure  plain," 
though  bis  father,  Robert,  bore  the  arms  above  described. 

||  Argent,  a  bugle  horn  strung  between  three  escallops  sable.  (Harl.  MS. 
6128.) 

f  This  is  an  undoubted  mistake.     The  coat  is  that  of   Ufford.     In  the   Harl. 
MS.  6128  the  shield  is  blank  ;  in  MS.  1570  c:al's  Ufford  "  is  added.     It  is  curious 
that  in  a  Roll  stated  to  be  of  the  reign  of  Edward  I.,  the  same  coat  is  ascribed  to 
Robert  do  Giffard,  though  in  the  margin  is  written  "credo  Ufford." 
**  "  Wrottesley  alias  Wrotsley  "  in  Harl.  MS."  6128. 
ft  Sable,  a  chevron  between  three  battle  axes  argent.     (lb.) 


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Chetelton.* 

John  Boffrey. 

Cornelius  Wirley. 
Nicholas  Waringe.f 

Ednionde  at  Lowe. 

Ric'us  Lewson. 

Sr  Thomas  Sutton. 
Sr  William  Warter.} 
Sheldon. 
§Bromfeild. 
||Spilman. 


Argent,   on  a  chevron  within    a 

border     engrailed    gules     five 

bezants. 
Argent,  a  chevron  between  three 

annulets  sable. 
Azure,  three  bugle  horns  argent. 
Sable,  three  falcon's  heads  erased 

argent. 
Argent,  a  chevron  between  three 

carpenter's  squares  sable. 
Quarterly  azure  and  gules,  three 

dexter   hands  couped    at    the 

wrist  argent. 
Or,    two    lions    passant   in  pale 

azure. 
Argent,  a  chevron  engrailed  be- 
tween three  chess-rooks  sable. 
Argent,  on  a  bend  gules,  three 

sheldrakes  or. 
Sable,  on  a  chevron  argent  three 

broom  sprigs  vert. 
Quarterly  :  1  and  4,  Sable,  platee 

two  nanches  argent ;  2  and  3, 

Gules,  a  chief  ermine. 


*  "  William  de  Chettelton."     (Harl.  MS.  6128.) 

f  "  De  la  Lee."     (lb.) 

t  After  this  name  in  Harl.  MS.  1570  is  written  "  Finis  E-otuli."  And  there  is 
really  no  doubt  that  the  ancient  Roll  ends  with  Thomas  Sutton,  the  succeeding 
coats  being  of  a  much  later  date.  Who  Sir  William  Warter  was  I  have  not  ascer- 
tained, but  Burke  ("  General  Armory  ")  states  that  a  similar  coat  was  borne  by  a 
Sir  Wm.  Warter  temp.  Henry  VIII.  The  same  writer  ascribes  this  coat  to  Warter 
or  Walter  of  Cimdall,  co.  York,  and  it  was  allowed  at  the  Visitation  of  Middlesex 
in  1663  to  William  Walters  of  Edmonton,  second  son  of  Christopher  Walters  of 
Cundall,  co.  York.     The  Walcots  of  Shropshire  bear  a  somewhat  similar  coat. 

§  The  same  coat  was  borne  by  Brome  of  Warwickshire.  See  the  Visitation  of 
that  county  taken  in  1619. 

||  This  is  the  coat  of  Spelman  quartering  Narborough  as  borne  by  the  famous  Sir 
Henry  Spelman  of  Narborough,  co.  Norfolk  (5.  1562,  ob.  1641).  Gwillim  (first 
ed.  1611,  p.  253)  gives  a  cut  of  these  arms,  and  says,  "  These  coat-armors  thus 
marshalled  are  borne  by  Sir  Henry  Spelman,  Knight,  a  man  very  studious,  a 
favourer  of  learning,  and  a  careful  preserver  of  antiquities."  I  have  not  been  able 
to  discover  any  connection  between  this  family  and  the  county  of  Stafford. 


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THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


*Spilman. 


Quarterly :  1  and  4,  as  the  last ; 
2  and  3,  Gules,  a  cross  patonce 
between  four  trefoils  slipped  or. 


In  Deambulatorio  Baronis  de   Burleygh  apud 

THlBAULDE's.f 

Or,  a  chevron  gules. 

Argent,  a  fesse  gules,  in    chief 

three  torteaux. 
Gules,  fretty  or. 
Or,  a  lion  rampant  double  tailed 

vert. 


Dominus  Stafford 
Comes  Essex. 

Dominus  Audley. 
Dominus  Dudley. 


Dominus  Pagett. 


Walter  us  Aston,  miles. 

Gresley. 

Litleton  aVs  Westcote. 


Egerton. 
Bagenholte. 

Fleetwoode. 


Sable,  on  a  cross  engrailed  be- 
tween four  eagles  displayed 
argent  five  lions  passant  of  the 
field. 

Argent,  a  fesse  sable,  in  chief 
three  lozenges  of  the  last. 

Vaire  ermine  and  gules. 

Argent,  a  bend  cottised  sable 
within  a  border  engrailed  gules 
be  z  ante. 

Gules,  a  fesse  ermine  between 
three  pheons  argent. 

Sable,  an  inescutcheon  argent 
charged  with  a  leopard's  face 
gules  within  an  orle  of  eight 
martlets  of  the  second. 

Per  pale  nebule  or  and  azure,  six 
martlets,  2,  2,  and  2,  counter- 
changed. 


*  The  quartering  is  "  Manning  of  Downe,  Kent,  confirmed  1577  "  (Papworth). 
A  similar  coat  is  ascribed  to  Manning  of  Norfolk. 

f  Theobald's,  Herts,  then  the  seat  of  the  famous  Lord  Burleigh,  but  afterwards 
the  royal  palace  of  King  James  I.,  who  acquired  it  from  Sir  Eobert  Cecil  in  ex- 
change for  Hatfield.  We  learn  from  a  survey  of  crown  lands,  made  in  1650  by  the 
Parliamentary  Commissioners,  that  on  the  east  side  of  the  house  was  a  cloister  and 
over  it  a  long  gallery,  called  the  "  Green  Gallery,"  in  which  were  "  excellently  well 
painted"  the  arms  of  the  noblemen  and  gentlemen  in  the  "severall  shires  in 
England." 


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27 


Wrottesley. 
Fowler. 

Stafford,  Bagott. 
Griffith. 

Okeover. 
Wirley. 

Sneyde. 

Salte. 

Erdeswike. 

Agard. 

Minours. 
Draycott. 
Kinardesley. 


Or,  three  piles  sable,    a  canton 

ermine. 
Azure,    on    a     chevron    between 

three     lions    rampant    or,    as 

many  crosses  crosslet  sable. 
Or,    a    chevron    between    three 

martlets  gules. 
Gules,  on  a  fesse  dancette  argent 

between  six  lions  rampant  or, 

three  martlets  sable. 
Ermine,  a    chief    gules  charged 

with  three  bezants. 
Argent,  a  chevron  engrailed  be- 
tween three  bugle  horns  sable, 

stringed  or. 
Argent,  a  scythe  and  snead,  blade 

in  chief  sable,  in    the   dexter 

chief  a  fleur-de-lis. 
Argent,  a    chevron    couped    be- 
tween three  mullets  sable. 
Argent,  a  chevron  gules  charged 

with  five  bezants. 
Argent,  a  chevron  gules  between 

three  boar's  heads  couped  close 

sable. 
Gules,    a  fesse    argent  between 

three  plates. 
Paly  of  six  or  and  gules,  a  bend 

ermine. 
Argent,  a  fesse  vaire  or  and  gules 

between  three  eagles  displayed 

of  the  last. 


The  Seale  of  the  Towne  of  Stafforde. 

[Here  is  a  trick  of  the  Seal.'] 

The  Towne  of  Stafforde,  hed  borrough  of  the  County,  is 
ancyently  corporated  and  privileged  by  Kinge  ....  Whereof 
at  the  tyme  of  this  presente  Visitac'on  Nicholas   Woodhouse 


28  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

and  Frauncis  Lee  were  Baylifes  and  Justices  of  Peace  within 
the  libertyes  therof,  Frauncys  Cradocke  recorder  of  the  sayde 
Towne,  likewise  Justice  of  Peace  w'thin  the  liberties  therof;  and 
these  whose  names  hereafter  ensue  were  of  the  companie  and 
brotherhood  of  the  same  Towne  that  is  to  say :  Mathew  Cra- 
docke, Thomas  Whitby,  Martyn  Nowell,  James  Shirewood, 
William  Blackborne,  John  Homersley,  Roberte  Lee,  Edmond 
Blore,  Richard  Sterton,  George  Cradocke,  Thomas  Dorrington, 
Edward  Lee,  Richard  Cotton,  William  Morres,  William  Dun- 
calf,  Richard  Dorington,  and  Willyam  Phillippes. 

The  Seale  of  the  Towne  of  Leichfeilde. 

[Here  is  a  trick  of  the  Seal.~\ 

The  Cittie  of  Lichfeilde,  in  the  Countye  of  Stafforde,  is  in- 
corporated by  the  name  of  Baylifes,  Burgesses,  Cittizens,  and 
the  Commonaltye  of  the  same  Cyttie,  by  the  noble  prince  of 
famous  memorye  Kinge  Edwarde  the  Sixth,  in  the  firste  yeare 
of  his  Raigne.  And  at  the  tyrne  of  this  present  Visitac'on  of 
Staffordshire  were  Baylifes  therof,  John  Chatterton  and 
Humfrey  Ilsley  ;  and  John  Blounte  was  sherife.  And  these, 
whose  names  doe  herafter  followe,  were  then  Citizens  and  of 
the  Corporation  of  the  same  Cittye,  that  is  to  saye  :  Humfrey 
Lowe,  Nicholas  Birde,  James  Weston,  John  Feckenam,  George 
Bagshawe,  Walter  Whitwicke,  Thomas  Tewe,  John  Walkelate, 
George  Holmes,  Humfrey  Madocke,  John  Burnes,  Will'm 
Baylie,  John  Byrde,  Henry  Hanson,  Roger  Perkins,  John 
Lovate,  Rob'te  Dale,  Symon  Byddulle,  John  Anrpe,  Kenelmus 
Hawkes,  Richard  Burwaye,  Richard  Otteley,  and  James 
Cruchley.  Moreover  Thomas  Edgerton  esqr  Solliciter  to  the 
Queene's  Matlc  was  then  Recorder,  and  Richarde  Broughton 
was  Stewerde  of  the  libertyes  of  the  same  Cittye. 

The  Com'on  Seale  of  the  Burgh  of  Newcastle  under  Lyne. 

[Here  is  a  trick  of  the  8eal.~\ 

The  Towne  and  Burgh  of  Newcastle  under  Lyne  is  antyently 
encorporated  by  Kinge  H.  3,  Kinge  of  Ingland  an0  reg'  sui  19 
by  the  name  of  Mayor  and  Burgeses ;  wherof  was  mayor  at  the 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  29 

tyme  of  this  present  Survey  and  visitac'on  Raulph  Edgerton, 
esqr.  And  these  followinge  were  at  that  tyme  the  Aldermen 
there,  viz.,  Sr  Eaulph  Edgerton,  Knight,  Raulph  Sneyd,  esqr, 
.Richard  Pateson,  Thomas  Cleyton,  Randoll  Baginhould, 
Thomas  Dale,  and  Edward  Brette,  esquiers. 

The  doubtful  arms  of  Staffordshire. 

[The  ensuing  list  does  not  appear  in  the  Stukeley  MS.  nor 
in  the  (presumed)  Original,  but  it  is  given  in  Lord  Hatherton's 
MS.  and  several  other  copies  of  the  Visitation.  It  no  doubt 
contains  those  coats  which  were  disallowed  or  "  respited"  by 
Glover.  I  here  print  it  from  the  Harl.  MS.  1570,  where,  as 
the  Harleian  Catalogue  has  it,  the  arms  are  "  hastily  tricked 
within  printed  escocheons."  It  is  there  headed,  "Here  be- 
ginneth  the  doubtfull  Armes  of  Staffordshire."] 

John  Brettayne,  of  Seres-     Azure,  a  bend  between  six  mul- 

cott  and  Tamworth.  lets  or. 

Raufe  Aderley,  of  Coton.         Argent,  on  a  bend    azure  three 

lozenges  or,  each  charged  with 
a  pheon  gules. 
John  Skevington,  of  Fysh-     Argent,  three  bull's  heads  erased 

erwyke.  sable. 

Sir  John  Bowes,  of  Elford.      Ermine,  three    bows    strung    in 

pale  gules,  in  the  dexter  chief 
a  fleur-de-lis  .... 
*Sir   Symond   Weston,    of     Ermine,   on    a    chief   azure   five 
Lichfield.  bezants,    a  martlet   gules    for 

difference. 


*  An  evident  interpolation,  for  Sir  Simon  was  not  a  knight  in  1583,  and  his 
father,  James  Weston,  was  then  living.  The  latter  made  his  will  in  1589,  and 
therein  names  his  son  James,  then  under  twenty-four  years  of  age,  and  his  son  and 
heir  Simon.  It  may  he  here  mentioned  that  the  elaborate  pedigree  of  Weston 
printed  in  Harwood's  "  Erdeswiek  "  was  fabricated  in  1632  for  Eichard,  Lord 
Weston,  then  Lord  Treasurer  of  England.  (Vide  Mr.  Chester- Waters's  "  Memoirs 
of  the  Chesters  of  Chicheley.")  It  should  be  added  that  Sir  Simon  does  not  appear 
in  the  lists  of  doubtful  coats  given  in  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.  and  in  the  Harl. 
MSS.  1077,  1173. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


"^Edmund  James,  of  Wor- 
cestershire. 


Humfrey     Wolverston,    of 
Stotfeild. 


Huinf  rey  Everard,  of  Whit- 
tin  gton. 

Kaufe  Mynors,  of  Utoxeter. 

Peter  Eoos,  of  Swynes- 
head  (extra  Comitat.). 

Ednmnd  Bradock,  of  Ad- 
baston. 

Edward  Manwaring,  of 
Whitmore. 

Edward  Brett,  of  Kele. 


Azure,  on  a  chevron  between 
three  lions  passant  guard  ant 
or,  as  many  escallops  sable. 
Crest:  A  cubit  arm  vested 
bendy  sinister  or  and  azure, 
holding  in  the  hand  proper  a 
hawk's  lure  gules,  garnished, 
etc.,  gold. 

Sable,  a  fesse  wavy  between  three 
wolf's  heads  erased  or.  Crest : 
Under  a  tree  a  wolf  statant, 
all  proper. 

Gules,  on  a  fesse  between  three 
estoiles  argent,  as  many  pierced 
mullets  sable. 

Gules,  a  fesse  argent  between 
three  plates. 

Azure,  three  water  bougets  or. 

Argent,  a  greyhound  courant 
within  a  border  engrailed  sable. 

Argent,  two  bars  gules,  in  chief 
a  mullet  for  difference. 

Argent,  on  a  chevron  azure  three 
bezants,  in    chief    an  annulet 


Gilbert   Astley,    of    Patis- 

hall. 
Edmund  Blount,  of  Burton. 


Edward  Swinerton  of  Ec- 
cleshall. 


Azure,      a     cinquefoil     pierced 

ermine. 
Nebule  or    and    sable,  within   a 

border    compone    argent    and 

gules. 
Argent,  a  cross  formee  flor}r  sable, 

debruised  with  a  bendlet  gules. 

*  Edmund  James  was  doubtless  a  member  of  tbe  family  seated  at  Astley  and 
Eorfield  Court  in  the  county  of  "Worcester,  of  which  a  pedigree  will  be  found  in 
Harl.  MS.  6128.  Edmund  James  "  of  Swinford  Regis  "  was  admitted  to  the  Inner 
Temple  in  1548.  One  Edmund  James  was  steward  of  the  manor  of  Himley  temp. 
Elizabeth ;  his  son,  Walter  James  of  Enville,  gent.,  was  one  of  the  witnesses 
examined  in  an  Exchequer  suit  relating  to  lands  in  Himley  a0  1587,  and  was  then 
"  aged  43  or  thereabouts." 


<PeUtigm0. 


(     33     ) 


gttoerleg  of  Cotoiu 

Thomas  Adderley  of  the^Joane,  the  da.  of  John 


Blackhaghe  in  the  Coun- 
tye  of  Stafford. 


Thirkell  of  Smallwood 
in  Com.  Stafforde. 


Joane,  eldest,  mar. 
to  Rob'te  Smithe 
of  Brandston. 


Elizabeth,  mar. 
to  Will'm 
Peverell. 


Alice,  mar.  to  John  Cogniers 
de  Com.  Ebor. 


I 

Thomas 

Adderley, 
eldest  sonne, 
mar.    Joane, 
da.  of  Rob't 
Warner. 


John  Adderley, 
second  sonne, 
mar.  Elene,  the 
widdowe  of  one 
Gilbert. 


Humfrey  Adderley, 
Groome  of  the  Robes 
to  the  Queene's 
Mat!e ;  mar.  first  da. 
of  North  de  Com. 
Notts,  after  da.  of 
Capell. 


George 

Adderley, 

5  sonne, 

died  in 

Fraunce, 

sans 

yssue. 


Margare,  the  da.- 
of  Thomas  Bagot 
of  Blithefelde, 
Esqr ;  first  wife. 


-Raulf  Adderley  of  Cotton  inr 
the  County  of  Stafford,  Esqr, 
Justice  of  Peace  ;  nowe  liv- 
inge  in  anno  1583. 


:Phelice,  da.  of  Henry 
Milwarde  in  Com. 
Derby  ;  second  wife. 


Richard  Adder-      Will'm,  eldeste     Thomas,  2  sonne.  Elene,  eldest  da. 
ley,  eldeste              sonne    by   the                —  — 

sonne,  tetatis  seconde  wife,       Raulf,  3  sonne.  Dorothe,  2  da. 

26  annor'  anno       setat.  23  an'or'  —  — 

1583.  1583.  John,  4  sonne.  Grace,  3  da. 

Walter,  5  sonne.  Mary,  4  da. 

George,  6  sonne. 

R.  Adderley. 


34  TIIE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


artlatfter  of  itongtrou. 

Arms. — Ermine,  a  cross-low  bent  gules. 

A  trick  of  a  seal  containing  the  same  arms  on  a  circular  shield,  and 
an  ostrich  feather  encircled  by  a  ducal  coronet  for  crest.  Legend : 
"  Seel  Edmond  Arbalastier."  Over  it :  "  Taken  after  an  old  seale 
in  brasse." 

Thomas  Arblaster.=F 


Richarde  Arblaster.=f  Maulde,  syster  of  Sr  Lewis  Bagotte,  Knighte. 


Humfrey  Arblaster.=j=Catherin,  da.  of  Thomas  Laynham  of   Staff ord- 
j  sheire. 

Thomas  Arblaster  of  Longdon  in=p.  ...  da.  of  ...  . 


Com.  Stafford. 


Martyn. 


George  Arblaster=p.  .  .  .     John  Arblaster,  Jane  Arblaster,  mar. 


of  Longdon,  nowe 
livinge,  1583. 


2  sonne.  to  Will'm  Hollande 

—  of  Caudwall  in  Com. 

Michaell  Arblaster,  Derb. 

3  sonne. 


Thomas  Arblaster,  onely  sonne  and  heire. 


Franncis,  mar.  to  Eic.  Callangwoode  of        Alice,  unmarried. 
Caudwall  in  Com.  Derb. 

Thomas  Arblaster. 


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35 


Qtibtribmzt  of  aa&enlmratt.* 

John  Ashenhurst  of  Ashenhurst^  Jane,  d.  of .  . 
in  the  County  of  Staff.  Twyford. 


John  Ashenhurst,  eldest  sonne,  mar.  Margery,=p  Will'm,  2  sonne, 

d.  of  .  .  .  .  Collyer  of ...  .  sans  yssue. 


Thomas,  2  sonne. 
Laurence,  3  sonne. 
Rauf,  4  sonne. 


Anne,  mar.  to 
Thomas  Sher- 
ard  of  Bag- 
enall  in  Com. 
Staff. 


Johane,  mar. 
to  George 
Hill  of  Mes- 
ham  in  Com. 
Derby. 


Joyce  Miller,=j=John  Ashenhurst=p  Alice,  d.  of  John: 


da.   of   John 
Miller  al's 
Ferae  ;   first 
wyf. 


of  Ashenhurst  in 
Com.  Staff.,  now 
lyving  1583. 


Belott  de  Morton 
in  Com.  Cestr. ;  2 
wyf. 


Grace,  first 
maryed  to  John 
Manyfold,  after 
to  Arthur  Many- 
fold. 


:  Catherine,  sister 
to  Philip  Okover 
of  Okover. 


Thomas,  sans  yssue.        John,  sans  yssue. 


Rauf  Ashenhurst  of  Ashen-  John,  Dorothe,  mar. 

hurst,  mar.    Elizabeth,  d.  sans  toJohnRothe- 

&  heire  of  Will'm  Beard  yssue.  wall  of  Leeke 

of  Beard  in  Com.  Derby.  in  Com.  Staff. 


Margaret,  mar. 
to  Nicholas 
Rayner  of  Duf- 
feld    in    Com. 
Derby. 


Elizabeth,  mar.  to  Thomas 
Lownes  of  Redearth  in 
Com.  Staff. 


|4  |5 

Anne,  un-       Joyce,  mar.  to  Arthur 
maryed.  Bulkelegh  of  Stanlo  in 

Com.  Staff. 

John  Asshenhuest. 


*  In  the  presumed  original  (Queen's  College  MS.)  this  pedigree  is  crossed  out; 
and,  as  will  have  been  seen  (ante,  p.  15),  John  Ashenhurst  of  Ashenhurst  was 
publicly  disclaimed  at  Uttoxeter.  This  John  died  Oct.  20,  1597,  and  has  a  brass  in 
Leek  Church,  whereon  are  represented  the  following  arms :  Or,  a  cockatrice,  the 
tail  terminating  in  a  serpent's  head  and  nowed  sable,  the  comb,  wattles,  and  head 
gules,  in  the  beak  a  sprig  vert.  Crest :  A  cockatrice  as  in  the  arms.  According  to 
the  Harl.  MS.  1570,  these  bearings  were  granted  by  Dethick,  Garter,  in  1603, 
perhaps  for  the  special  purpose  of  being  placed  on  this  monument.  There  is  a 
drawing  of  the  brass  in  Mr.  Sleigh's  "History  of  Leek,"  facing  p.  73. 

d2 


36 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


asstltu  of  patrtfitifl. 

Thomas  de  Astley,=f  Elizabetha,  filia  Thomas  de  Bello- 
D'n's  de  Astley.        campo,  Comitis  Warwici. 


Will'm's  de  Astley  ,=j=Catherina,  soror 
D'n's  de  Astley,  Baronis  de  Wil- 
miles.  loughby. 


Thomas  Astley,=j=Elizabetha,  filia 
miles,  filius  et  hasres  Ric'di 


Thomas,  Ar. 
sed  quaere  ?* 


Harecourt, 
militis. 


Johanna,  unica  filia  et  Thomas1 

hasres,  ux.  s'c'da  Regi-  Astley, 

naldi    D'ni    Grey    de  Ar. 
Ruthin.         =p 


:  Johanna, 

filia 

Thomas 
Greseley, 
militis. 


Johannes  de  Aste-- 
ley,  inclitissimi 
ordinis  Equestris 
Garterij,  militis. 


Thomas  Astley  de  Pates-- 
hill  in  Com.  Stafi". ;  se- 
pultus  apud  Wolver- 
hampton an0  1  R.  8. 


Margareta,  filia 

Will'm's  de 

Joh'es  de 

Thomas  Butler, 

Astley. 

Astley,  de 

militis,  et  Eliza- 

— 

collatus. 

beths  uxoris 

Hugo  de 

ejus. 

Astley. 

Will'm's  Astley, 
sine  prole. 


Ricardus  Astley~Johanna,   filia   Joh'is   Oteley   de 


de  Patteshill. 


Piehford  in  Com.   Salop,  et  suas 
cuiijugis,  filias  Blount. 


Thomas  de- 
Astley  de 
Pateshill. 


:Maria,  filia  et  una  hasredum 
Gilberti  Talbot  de  Grafton, 
militis. 


Jana,  uxor  Thomas  Bagot 
de  Blithfeild.     =f= 

I 
Ricardus  Bajrott. 


Gilbertus  Astley  de" 
Pateshill  in  Com. 
Staff.,  Ar.,  modo 
sup'stes  in  an0 
1583. 


-Dorothea,  filia  Thomas  Joh'es 
Giflard  de  Chillinton  Astley. 
in  Com.  Stat'.,  Ar. 


Elizabetha, nnpta 
Joh'i  Wrotesley 
de  Wrotesley  in 
Com.  Staf. 


Thomas  Astley ,=j=Margeria,  filia  Waited  Aston  de 
p'mogenitus.  *       Ticksall  in  Com.  Stafford,  militis. 

Walterus  Astley. 

*  The  doubt  here  thrown  upon  the  parentage  of  Sir  Thomas  Astley  is  curious, 
for  Bugdale  and  all  the  genealogists  agree  in  making  him  second  son  of  Thomas  by 
Elizabeth  Beauchamp,  daughter  of  Guy  (not  Thomas  as  above),  Earl  of  Warwick. 


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37 


3teton  of  Cfyan* 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1.  Argent,  a  f esse,  and  in  chief  three  lozenges  sable. 
[Aston.]  2.  Or,  a  cross  patonce  gules.  [Freville.]  3.  Bendy 
or  and  azure.  [Montfort.]  4.  Gules,  two  bars  gemelles  argent, 
over  all  a  bendlet  of  the  last.  [Welsh.]  5.  Sable,  on  a  chevron 
argent  between  three  lion's  heads  erased  or,  as  many  cinquefoils  of 
the  field.  [Staunton.]     6.  Or,  three  bends  gules.  [Byron.] 

Crest. — A  bull's  head  couped  or,  the  horns  argent,  tipped  sable.  (A 
second  Crest  is  given  in  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.,  viz.,  A  chapeau, 
issuant  therefrom  on  either  side  a  bulVs  horn  proper.) 


Eogerus  de  Aston,  35  E.  3.= 


Thomas  de  Aston,  filius  et  hseres. 


Johanna;  uxor=Rogerus*  Aston,=pJocosa,   filia  et  cohaeres 


s'c'da. 


miles,  obijt 
1447 


Baldwini  Frevill,  militis ; 
uxor  p'ma. 


Jane,  ux.  Roger 

Draycott.  Haywood  et  de  Parkhall 

(HathertonMS.)     in  Com.  Stafford. 


Robertus  Aston,  miles,  de=j=Johanna,  soror  Will'mi 

Brereton,  militis. 


Isabella,  uxor  Ricardi: 
Bagot  de  Blithefeld. 


Johannes  Bas;ot.=F 


Ludovicus  Bagot,  miles.=p 


Thomas  Bas;ot.=T= 


Ricardus  Bagot, 


Johannes- 
Aston, 
obijt 
1483. 


:Elizabetha, 
filia  Johan- 
nis  Delves, 
militis. 


Parnell,  ux. 
Rich.  Bydulfe. 
(Hatherton 

MS.) 


Ricardus 
Aston,  2. 


Robertus  Aston, 
3  filius. 


*  According  to  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.,  this  Roger  was  the  son  of  Thomas  de 
Aston,  Kt.,  by  Elizabeth,  sister  and  coheir  of  Eeginald  Lee,  which  Thomas  was  son 
of  Roger,  and  grandson  of  another  Roger  de  Aston,  living  19  E.  1,  and  35  E.  3. 


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THE   VISITATION   OF    STAFFORDSHIKE,   A.D.    1583. 


A| 


Johannes  Byron  de  Clayton=j=Margeria,  filia  Johannis 
in  Com.  Lane,  miles.  Boothe  de  Barton. 


Nicholaus  Byron,      Ricardus  Byron,  s'e'd's  filius,     Elena,  nupta 
miles.  pater  Margerise  Staunton.         Waltero  Blount. 


Thomas  Welshe  de  Onlep=pMargeria  Staunton,     Johanna,  uxor  Will'ini 
in  Com.  Leycestria.  haeres.  Basset  de  Blore. 


Elena,  uxor: 
prima,  filia 
et  una 
haeredu'. 


Thomas,  miles.^ 


Will'm's  Lit-=j=Maria,  filia  Whit-    Elizabetha,uxorp'ma 


tleton,  miles 


ington;  uxors'e'da.  Rad'i  Shirley,  militis. 


Johannes  Anna,  nupta  Thoinaa  Pulteney,  militi. 

Littleton.  =p 

Franciscus  Pulteney. 


Eliz.y  ux.  Bassett    Isabella,  nupta     Johannes  Aston=pJohanna,   filia 


of  Blore.  Humfrido  de  Tycksall, 

(Hatherton  MS.)     Okeover  de  miles,  obijt 

Okeover.  1523. 


et  hseres,  alibi 
Elena. 


Will'm's 
Aston, 
s'e'd's 
filius. 


Elena,     Isabella. 
Una  istarum 
nupta  fuit  Thomse 
Curzon  de  Crox- 
hallinCom.Derb. 


Jana,  filia  Thoma3=j=Edwardus= Maria, 


Bowles  de  Castro 
de     Penhow      in 
Southwallia, 
militis,  in  Com. 
Carmarden. 


Maria,  nupta 
Simoni  Hare- 
court  de 
Staunton. 


Katherina,  nupta 
Will'mo  Gresley 
de  Colton,  militi. 


Aston  de  filia 

Tycksall,  Henrici 

miles,  Vernon, 

obijt  militis. 
1568. 


Anna.  Francisca,  nupta  Roberto 
Nedeham  de  Schenton  in 
Com.  Salop. 


B 


THE   VISITATION   OF   STAFFORDSHIRE,   A.D.   1583. 


39 


|B 


|  I  I  _ 

Walterus  Aston=f=Elizabetha,  filia    Leonardus    Anthonms    Aston    de 


de  Tycksall, 
miles,  modo 
superstes,  anno 
1583. 


Jacobi,  ac  soror    Aston, 
Ricardi     Leve-    duxit  re- 
son,  militis.  lictam 

Creswall. 


Parkhall  in  Com.  Staff., 
duxit  relictam  Borows* 
de  Com.  Lincoln. 


Maria,  filia=pEdwardus=pAnna,  filia    Robertus  Aston,     Ricardus 


Joh'is 
Spenser, 
militis ; 
uxor  p'ma 


Aston, 
Ar. 


Thomse          s'c'd's  filius, 
Lucy  de        duxit  filiam 
Com.Warr.,  Dab/son. 
militis. 


Aston,  3 
filius,  duxit 
relictam 
Clerke. 


Filius,  sine  p'le. 


Filiae  duas. 


Ill  I  M  |3 

Will'm's,  4  filius.  Jana,  nupta  Margeria,  nupta  Eleonora,  nupta 

—  Will'mo  Thornse  filio  Peytoe  de 
Devereux,  5  filius.  Crumpton  primogenito  Chesterton  in 

—  de  Stone  in  Gilberti  Astley  Com.  Warw. 
Hastingus,  6  filius.  Com.  Staff,  de  Patishill  in 

Com.  Staff. 


|4  |5  6  | 

Maria.       Elizabetha,  promissa  Basilio  Feldinge      Catherina. 
de  Neuenham  in  Com.  Warw. 


iSagot  of  JSlttfjfim 

Anns.— Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Argent,  a  chevron  gules  letween  three 
martlets  sable.  [Bagot.]  2.  Or,  a  lion  rampant,  doubled  tailed 
gales.  [Blithfield.j]  3.  Per  pale  dancettee  argent  and  sable. 
[Malory.] 

Crest. — In  a  ducal  coronet  or,  a  goafs  head  argent,  horned  gold. 

Rad'phus  Bagott,  miles,  de  Bagotts  Bromeley. 


Joh'es  Bagot,  miles.=f=Beatrix,  filia  Joh'is  Villiers,  militis. 
A| 

*  Relict  of  Henry  Borough  of  Stowe  in  Lincolnshire,  by  whom  he  had  issue, 
Edward,  Walter,  and  John,  of  whom  Edward  had  "  a  dau.,"  and  Walter  had  a  son 
of  his  own  name.     (Hatherton  MS.) 

t  Sic  in  Stukeley  MS.,  but  2  is  Malory,  and  3  Blithjield, 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Kniveton    port  g.  un 
cheveron  varri  ar.  et  sa. 


Port  p'ti  p'  pale  sa.  et  g. 
un  lyon  rampt.  argent. 


Elizabetha, 
nupta  Kni- 
veton. 


R'c'dus=plsabella,  filia 


Bagot, 
Ar. 


Rob'ti  As- 
ton, militis. 


Jana,  uxor  Joh'is 
Curson,  filii  et 
haeredis  Joh'is 
Curson. 


Margareta, 
uxor   Hen. 
Bradborne, 
postea  ux. 
Davenport. 


Joh'es  Bagot,  Ar.,=f=Isabella,  filia 
obijt  24  Junii,         Johannis  Curson 
1480.  de  Essex. 


Curson  de  Essex  port  ar. 
sur  un  fesse  g.  3  testes 
dazur  (sic)  arg.  couple. 


Matildis,  ux.  Ric'di 
Arblaster,  filii  et 
haer.  Tho.  Arblaster. 


Aleonora,  ux.  Rob'ti 
Cawardin,  fil.  et 
haer.  Thomas. 


I 

Isabell,  ux. 

WiU'  Dun- 
holme,  filii 
et  hasredis 
Wili'mi. 


Anna,  uxor 

Rob'ti 

Kniveton, 

filii  et 

haeredis 

Joh'is. 


Anna,  uxor  ter-=pLodovicus  Bagot,  miles  pro=Margareta,  ux.=Uxor  5, 


tia,  filia  Nicholai 

Montgomery, 

militis. 


Corpore  Regis  H.  7.    Obiit    4,  filia  Ric.  relicta. 

31  Maii  1534.  Vernon 

Emma,    uxor    ejus  p'ma, 
filia  Kniveton.=i= 


Johannes  Bagot,  duxit  Jana,  ux.  Elena,  Elizabetha, 

filiam  Thomas  Boteler  Jacobi  uxor  ux.  Georgii 

de   Beausey,  mil.,   et  Thirkeld.  Tho.  Est  de 

obiit  sine  exitu.  Meverell.  Yardley. 


....  filia 

nupta 

Bydolph 

deEccles- 

haU. 


Edwardus     Stephanus  Bagot,  3  filius,  duxit     Thomas^Jana,  filia 
Bagot,  Anna',  filiam  Thomae  Josceline 

2  filius.         de  Com.  Essex,  militis. 


Bagot, 
Ar. 


Jana,  nupta  Brereton,  filio  Uriani  Brereton,  militis. 


Ric'di  Astley 
de  Pateshill. 


Joh'es  Ricardus  Bagot  de: 
Bagot,  Blithfield  in  Com. 
2  filius.     Staff.,  Ar.,  modo 

superstes  an0  1583. 
u 


-Maria,  filia  Wili'mi 
Saunders  de  Welford 
in  Com.  North'pt'. 


Margareta,  ux. 
Radulphi 
Adderley,  Ar. 


w^ 


&M 


$agcit 


Harry  Soane.  Sembiit  Engrave?  J'r  London 


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41 


B| 


Walterus  Bagot, 
p'mogenitus 
filius,  natus 
24  Octob.  1557. 

Anthonius  Bagot, 
natus  20  No.  1558. 


Margareta. 


Anna,  nupta 
Ric'do  Broughton, 
30  Julii  1577. 
Ipsa  nata  fait 
xj  Maij  1555. 


Dorothea. 
Letecia. 


Richard  Bagot. 


JSagStmto  of  Jfartoell 

Arms. — Or,  a  bugle  horn  sable,  stringed  vert,  between  three  roses  gules. 
Nicholas  Bagshawe  of  Abney  in  Com.  Derbye.=f= 


Nicholas  Bagshawe=i=.  ...  da.  of  Browne  of 


of  Abneye. 


Chapell  in  Frithe. 


Nicholas  Bagshawe=pElizabeth,  da.  of  Humfrey  Ruggeley 
of  Abney.  of  Longdon  in  Com.  Staff. 


Nicholas  Bagshawe=pJoane,  da. 
of  Abney  in  Com.  of  Rob'te 
Derby,  nowe  livinge,  Linaker. 
and  of  Farwell  in 
Com.  Staff.,  1583. 


Edwarde,  2  sonne, 
mar. 

Will'm,  3  sonne. 

Osmonde,  4  sonne. 


Rob'te  5. 

Thomas, 
6  sonne. 


Elizabeth,  eldeste  da., 
getat.  7  an'or'  1583. 


Nazarethe, 
2  da. 


Nicholas  Bagshaw. 


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THE   VISITATION   OF   STAFFORDSHIRE,   A.D.   1583. 


Co&ntajje  anti  JSaitram  ot  BarlaStoit 

EX  VETERE  QUODAM   SCRIPTO  IN  PARGAMEN'  14  SEPTEMBRIS  32  H.  8. 

[Three  small  escutcheons:  1,  on  a  chevron  five  roundles;  2,  two  bars 
and  a  canton ;  3,  two  barulets,  between  in  chief  a  lion  passant  to 
the  sinister,  and  in  base  a  chevron.  A  circular  seal,  thereon  a 
shield  charged  with  a  saltire  engrailed,  on  the  saltire  in  the  dexter 
chief  a  pheon,  in  the  centre  of  the  saltire  an  inescutcheon 
charged  with  a  chevron.  Over  :  "  S.  Bertram  de  Lewin." 
"  This  seale  in  brasse  shewed  by  George  Bartram  of  Barleston 
at  Stone  the  7  of  August  1583."     See  Plate.] 


Hughe  Cokenage,  called  Lorde  of 
Cokenage,  and  Alice  his  wife. 


David  of  Cokenage 
and  Hawise  his 
wife. 


Peter  of  Cokenage 
and  Alice  his  wife. 


This  Davy  gave  to  Raulf  his 
brother  a  mess'  place  &  oxe- 
gon  of  landes  in  fee  for  ever 
in  Cokenage.  Alsoe  this  Davy 
gave  to  Will'm  Bertram  a 
mess'  and  an  oxegon  of 
Landes  in  the  same  Cokenage 
in  fee  for  ever. 


Raulf  of  Coken- 
age and  Isabell 
his  wife. 


John  of  Coken- 
age and  Alice 
his  wife. 


Geffry  of  Cokenage  and 
Isabell  his  wife. 


Joane  of  Cokenage  was  mar.  to  John 
the  sonne  of  Will'm  Bartram. 


Will'm  of  Cokenage  and 
Alice  his  wife. 


Henry  Bertram  and 
Phillippa  his  wife. 


John. 


Will'm  of  Cokenage 
and  Joane  his  wife. 
This  Will'm  entayl- 
ed  all  his  landes  to 
John  his  sonne  and 
his  wife,  pro  defec' 
rem'  Eve  filia. 


Rob  te,  2  sonne, 
entred  into  all 
the  land  that 
should  be  Eve's, 
the  da.  &  heire 
of  Will'm. 


Richarde. 


Will'm 
Bertram 
and  Eve 
his  wife. 


Nicholas. 


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43 


John  of  Eve,  sister  and  heire  of  John,  was  wedded  to  John  of 

Cokenage        the  Hall  of  Bucknall,  to  the  wch  mariage  Will'm  her 

and  his  father  gave  all  his  mess',  landes,  and  ten'  in  Bloreton 

wife  Mar-       in  fee  tayle  ;   the  wch  John  and  Eve  had  noe  yssue. 

gery,  dyed       The  sayde  Eve  toke  to  her  husband  Roger  Wolriche ; 

sans  yssue.      the  sayde  Roger  and  Eve  made  estat  by  fine  at  Westmr 

of  all  the  mess',  landes,  and  rentes  in  Bloreton  and 

Cokenage  (the  wch  was  Eve's  by  guifte  and  by  descente 

of  her  father)  to  twoe  prests  called  John  Globard  and 

Richard  Ford  ;  the  w*  John  Globarde  was  sonne  to 

Thomas  Globard  ;  the  wch  Thomas  had  yssue  Eve  his 

da.;    the  wch  Eve  was  wedded  to  Will'm   Bertram, 

father  of  John  Bartram,  the  father  of  Hughe  that  was 

righte  heire  by  descente  of  bloud  and  by  fine. 


John  Bertram  and  Joane  his  wife.: 


Hughe  Bertram,  that  was  right  heire  to  all  the  Landes  that  were  Will'm 
Bartram's,  and  alsoe  of  Ralf  of  Cokenage,  and  alsoe  for  defaulte  of 
yssue  of  Davy  Cokenage,  the  elder  brother,  and  all  the  progeny  that  came 
of  him,  the  sayde  Hughe  is  heire  to  all  the  Landes,  rentes,  and  services. 
The  sayde  Hughe  Bertram,  Agnes  &  Joane  his  wives,  had  yssue 


John  Bertram  and=j= 
Hellene  his  wife. 


Will'm.        Richarde.      Hughe. 
Thomas.      James.  Rob'te. 


Anne,  1  wife,  da.  of .  .  .  .=pJohn    Bertram,1 


Weste 
Ar. 


de   Com.  Warw., 


Agnes  and  Anne 
his  2  wives. 


Agnes,  2  wife,  da  of 
James  Lawton  of 
Churchlawton. 


John  Bertram,  mar.  War-=j= 
burghe,     da.    of    James 
Lawton. 


Thomas  2. 
Hughe  3. 


James.       Edwarde. 
Randall. 


George  Bartram  of  Barleston  and=f=Margaret,  sister  to  Sr  Ralf  &  Sr 
Cokenage,  livinge  1583.  Nich.  Baginholde. 


Will'm  Bartram,=j=Elizabeth,  da.  of  John  Legh    George.    Warburghe. 
eldest  sonne.  of  the  Ridge.  — 

Grace. 
Margarette,  only  da, 


44  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


3Sa$3ett,  JHegnell,  etc, 

Rob'tus  Warde. 


Johanna,  nupta  Hugoni  Meignill,  seniori. 


Giles  Meynill.= 


Hugo  Meynill.        Cecilia. 


Ricardus  Meynill.1 


I 
Hugo  Meynill.=p 


1 

Joane, 

Reignalde=j 

=Thomasin.: 

= Hughe 

mar.  to 

Dedike 

Erdiswike, 

.... 

veil 

2  husband. 

Clinton. 

Dethicke, 

first 
husbande. 

Joane,  mar.  to  .  . 
Tikill  al's  Tikhill. 


I  I 

Margaret,    Alice,  mar. 
mar.  to        to  ...  . 
John  Aston ; 

Dedike         died  s.p. 
veil  Roger 
Dethike. 


Margaret,  mar.  to      (Sic.) 
Raulin  Basset. 


John  Dethike 
al's  Thomas. 


Walter  Tikill. 


Will'm  Basset. 


Will'm  Dethike. 


Will'm  Basset. 


Thomas  Dethike. 


Thomas  Tykhill. 

Memorandum  that  the  aforesayde  Hugh  Meynill  was  heire  unto  Warde  and 
to  Maynell,  and  was  seased  of  the  mannors  of  Langley,  Kingley,  Newhall,  and 
Hartishorne  Staunton. 

Wherof  Joane  had  to  her  p'te  Staunton-Harolde,  Tyssington,  &  Upton,  wth 
other  landes.  Thomasin  had  to  her  p'te  Langley,  Kingley,  wth  the  advouson  of  the 
Church.  And  Margaret  had  to  her  parte  Newhall,  Hartshorne,  wth  the  advouson 
Staunton  Warde. 

Memorand.,  that  I,  Phillip  Dedike,  a  man  of  fourscore  yeares  of  age  &  more, 
Witnesseth  and  saith  that  Sr  Hugh  Maynell,  Knight,  had  iiij  daughters,  of  wch  4 
daughters  Sr  Will'm  Dedike,  at  that  tyme  thresorer  of  England,  had  the  custodye, 
and  maryed  one  of  them  to  Aston,  and  another  to  Clinton,  and  the  other  twoe  were 
wedded  to  his  2  sonnes  Reignolde  and  Roger.  Item,  the  da.  wch  Aston  maryed  died 
wthout  yssue  of  her  hody,  and  the  lande  of  the  sayde  Sr  Hugh  Maynell  was  parted 
hetwixte  the  sayde  sisters.  And  the  sayd  Reignold  Dedike  wedded  Thomasin,  and 
had  by  her  twoe  daughters,  Margaret  &  Joane,  and  alter  the  death  of  the  sayde 
Reignolde,  one  Hughe  Erdeswike  wedded  the  same  Thomasyne,  and  had  noe  yssuo 
by  her.  Margaret  Raulin  Basset  wedded,  and  had  by  her  yssue  Will'm,  father  to 
Will'm  that  nowe  is,  and  Joane  one  Tykill  wedded. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


45 


asasteett  of  Move  antr  ffimte. 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1.  Argent,  three  piles  gules,  on  a  canton  of  the  first  a 
griffin  segreant  sable.  [Bassett.J  2.  Gules,  a  cross  ermine. 
[Beke.]  3.  Vaire  argent  and  sable.  [Meynell.]  4.  Sable,  a 
lion  rampant  argent.  [Everdon.]  5.  Argent,  three  bench  gules. 
[Byron.]  6.  Argent,  a  bend  azure  charged  with  three  annulets 
or,  in  the  sinister  chief  a  cross-crosslet  fitchee  of  the  second. 
[Clayton.] 

Crest. — In  a  ducal  coronet  or,  a  boar's  head  gules. 

A  second  shield  as  above,  except  that  between  Beke  and 
Meynell  is  inserted  another  quartering,  viz.,  (Argent),  a  fesse 
vaire  (or  and  gules)  between  three  water  bougets  (sable). 
[Dethicke.] 

Motto. — En  esperance  d 'avoir. 


Will'm  Bassett  of=pElizabeth,  da.  of  Thomas- 


Blore  and  Grendon 
in  Com.  Staff.,  Esqr, 
and  of  Langley  in 
Com.  Derb. 


Meverell  of  Throwley, 
Esqr 


:Henry  Cokayne, 
2  husbande. 


Margaret,  mar.  to  John  Woodson  of 
Litlehales  in  Com.  Salop. 


Thomas 
Bassett, 
2  sonne, 
mar.  da. 
of 


Frauncis 
Bassett. 


Anne,  daughter~Sr  Will'm    Bassett=Elenor, 


of  Sr  Thomas 
Cokayne  of 
Ashburne  in 
Com.  Derby, 
Kuio-hte. 


Edw.  Bassett  of  Hintes,     Divers 
mar.  da.  of  ...  .  Chet-     daughters, 
winde  of ...  . 


of  Blore,   Kl,  mar.     3  wife, 
to  his  2  w.  Isabell,     da.  of 

the  widowe  of  Jo 

Bradborne,    da.    &     Littleton, 
coheire  of  Richard     wid.  of 
of  Ridware.  Cotes. 


Maulde,  mar.  to  Ba.  Okover 
of  Okover  in  Com.  Staff.,  Esqr. 


Will'm=j=Elizabeth,  da.     Thomas  Bassett,     Frauncis,     Margarett, 


Bassett 
of  Blore 
and  of 
Langley, 
Esqr. 


of  Sr  Anthony 
Fitzherbert  of 
Norbury, 
Knight. 


2     sonne,     mar. 
Elene,  da.  of  ... . 
Cotes  of  Wood- 
cott  in  Com. 
Salop.     =f 


3  sonne, 
died  sans 
yssue. 


mar.  to  Rich. 
Copwood  of 
Tatridge  in 
Com.  Her- 
ford. 


Will'm  Bassett  of  Blore  in  Com. 
Staff.,  and  of  Langley  in  Com. 
Derby,  Esqr;  nowe  livinge,  1583. 


Will'm  Bassett  of  Fole  in     Dorothe. 

Com.  Staff.  ;  nowe  livinge, 

1583. 

Will'm  Bassett. 


46 


THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583, 


iSas&ctt  anU  (Jfjjerton. 

John  Bassett  de  Chedley,  6  Ed.  2.=f 


Johes  Bassett  de  Chedley,  miles,  =pJohanna,  filia  et 
44  Ed.  3,  6  H.  4.  hares 


Edmundus    Rad'ph's  Basset=j=Matildis,  filia    Reginaldus=rThomasina, 


Basset,  de  Nuplace,  et 

obijt  sine  postea  de  Ched- 

p'le  1429,  ley,  9  H.  4. 
8  H.  6. 


et  heeres  Dethike,  3 

Thomas  Beke     f.  Dethike. 
et  Alicias, 
p'mas  uxoris, 
suas  quas  obijt 
9H.  5. 


filia  et  una 
hteredum 
Hugonis  de 
Meynill. 


Rad'ph's  Bassett  de=pMargareta,  filia  et  sola=Nicholaus  Montgomery, 


Chedley,  et  de  Blore, 
et  Grendon,  30  H.  6 


hasres  Regi.  Dethike,     filius  Nich.  Montgomery, 
quse  obijt  1466.  militis;  2  mar. 


Will'm's  Bassett  de=p. 
Chedley,  Blore,  et 
Grendon,  34  H.  6, 
et  de  Langley. 


Cecilia,  uxor  Hugonis      Johannes  Biron, 
Erdeswike,  filii  Hen.        miles. 


Ricardus  Biron.=pLucia. 
I 


Will'm's  Basset,  Viscomes=p Johanna,  filia  et  co-     Margeria,  uxor  Thomas 


Stafford  in  an'o  6  E.  4, 
sup'stes  5  H.  7,  senior. 


hseres   Ric.   Biron,    "Welshe    de   Onlep  in 

filii    Joh'is   Biron,     Com.  Leic. 

militis. 


Will'm's  Basset,  junior,=j=Elizabetha,  filia  Thomae=HenricusCokayn, 


21  H.  7,  de  Blore  et 
de  Langley  in  Com. 
Derb. 


Meverell  de  Throwley,     2  maritus. 
junioris,  Ar. 


Will'm's  Bassett  de  Blore,=f=Anna,  filia  Thomas  Cokayn 
Grendon,  et  Langley,  miles,     de  Ashburne,  militis. 


Will'm's  Basset  de=j=Elizabetha,  filia  Anthonij  Fitzherbert 
Blore.  de  Norbery,  militis. 

Will'm's  Basset,  modo  superstes,  1583. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


47 


u 


I       22  E.  4. 
Johannes    Basset,  primo-       Rad's=pElena,  filia     Nicholaus  Basset,  3 


genitus  filius,  duxit  Elizab.,  Basset, 
filiam  Joh'is  Aston,  militis,  2  filius. 
et  obiit  sine  exitu. 


Hugonis  filius, duxitElenam, 

Eggerton  filia'    Nic.    Mont- 

de  Wrin-  gomery,  militis,  et 

hill,  Ar.  obiit  s.p. 


Margareta,  filia  et  hasres,  nupta  Rad'o  Egerton  de  Ridley  in 
Com.  Cestria3.  =f 


Richardus  Egerton  de  Ridley,  miles. 


Rad .'us  Egerton  de  Ridley,  nunc  1583. 


iSa^^ctt  tit  <#>apccott,  C&eatrfe,  JSlore,  Gmtiion, 
et  dnetrhonmgin 


(Barry  nebulee  of 
six  argent  and 
sable  ;  in  trick.) 


Will'm's  Bassett,  cui  Osbertus  Basewinus 
dedit  manerium  de  Chedle  in  Com.  Staff., 
t'pe  Regis  H.  2 ;  quo  tempore  ipse  Os- 
bertus tenuit  in  eodem  Com.  tria  feoda 
militaria  de  D'no  Rob' to  de  Stafford,  ut 
apparet  in  libro  rubeo  Scaccarij. 


Rad's  Basset,  junior,  filius.: 

(Arms  as  above,  with  a  label 
gules.) 


Symon  Basset,  D'n's  de: 
Chedley. 

(Nebule  argent  &  sable.) 


Rad's,  filius  Rad. 
Basset,  cui  Rad's 
Basset  de  Sap- 
cote  dedit  62 
acras  terras  in 
Cheddle,  tenend' 
de  prasd'c'o  Rad'o 
de  Sapcote,  p' 
finem  levat'  an'o 
56  H.  3.     == 


Rob'tus  Basset,: 
tenuit  20  libra- 
tas  terras  de 
rege  in  capite 
in  Com.  Nott. 
et  Derb.,  an0 
38  H.  3,  1253. 


Rad's  Basset  de  Sape- 
cote,  D'n's  de  Chedley, 
per  finem  levat'  an0  56 
H.  3,  dedit  terras  in 
Chedle,  Rad'o  filio  Radi' 
Basset ;  fait  sumonitus 
inter  Barones  ad  Parlia- 
mentu',  a0  49  H.  3. 


48  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

A  B  I 


Will'm's  Basset  de  Joh'es  Basset,  sup'stes  t'pe  E.  .  .=y=Uxorejus 
Com.     .N  Ott.,     t  pe  (Qr>  3  piies  gules,  a  canton  barry 

Phi'  Markham,  nebule  arg.  &  sable.) 

vie'  Not.,  miles. 


filia 
Liseux. 


Rob'tus  Basset,  sup'stes  1359.         Will'm's  Basset,  sup'stes  1359. 
Ricardus  Basset,  nepos  Will'mi,  1359,  33  E.  3. 


I  I 

Rad's  Bassett,  d'n's  de  Parkhall  de  Chedley,  dat  terras        Joh'es 
Rad'o  filio  suo  in  an'o  xi  E.  2.  Bassett. 


Rad's  Basset  de  Parkhall 
de  Chedley,  sup'stes  an0 
6  E.  3. 


Joh'es,  fllius  Joh'is  Bassett,- 
sup'stes  an0  6  E.  2. 

(Barry  nebule  argent  &  sable 
bezante.) 


.  .  .  .=j= Joh'es  Bassett  de  Chedley,  miles,  sup'stes=j=Johanna,  filia  et 


an'o  44  E.  3,  et  an'o  6  H.  4. 

(Or,  3  piles  gules,  on  a  canton  argent  a 
griffin  segreant  sable.) 


has  res  Henrici  de 

Braylesford, 

militis. 


Edmundus  Basset,      Radulphus  Basset  de=pMatildis 


obiit  sine    p'le   8      Newplace,  et  postea 
H.  6.  de  Chedley. 


de  Beke. 


Thomas: 
Bassett. 


Rad's  Basset  de  Chedley  et  de= 
Blore,  30  H.  6.    


I 

Will'm's.=F 


Will'm's.; 


Will'm's.=F 


Johanna,  uxor  Rad'i=j= 
Shirley. | 

I 
Rad's.=p 


Joh'es. 
Rad's. 


Will'm's.= 


Wffl'm's.=F 


Fran(iiscus.=j= 

! 

Joh'es.=p 


Will'm's  Basset  de  Blore,  1583,        Georgius  Shirley,  nunc  1583.      d 


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49 


D'n's  Rad's  Basset  de  Sapecote, 
sup'stes  an'o  2-4  E.  1  et  21  E.  1, 
tenuit  Languet  et  Chedley  21  E.  1. 
Elizab.  Colvill  uxor  ejus. 


Rob  t's  Bassett,  cui  pater  dedit 
2  acras  terras  in  Depdale  anno 
54  H.  4  (sic). 

(Nebule  arg.  &  sa.,  a  label  gu.) 


D'n's  Egidius=pAlicia,      Symon  Basset,  d'n's^Isabelk^quassup'vivit 


de  Estlegh. 


uxor.  de  Sapecote  et  de 
Chedley,  sup'stes  an'o 
20  E.  2,  et  mortuus 
ante  ami'  2  E.  3. 


maritum  an'o  2  E.  3, 
filia  d'ni  WiU'mi  le 
Botteller  de  Wemme. 


Sibilla,n=Rad's  Basset=j=Alicia,  uxor  2,  filia  et  haeres      Edmimdus 


filia 
Egidij 
Astley, 
militis, 
ux.  1. 


de  Sapecote, 
D'n's  de 
Chedley. 
Inq.  post 
mortem  2 
R.  2. 


Joh'is     de     Dry  by,     relicta  Basset  de 

Rob'ti  Tochet,  militis.  Sapecote, 

(A  chevron  between  9  billets,  ^UP'StoeS  "??. 

5  above  &  4  below.    "  S.  o  Jli.  d,  obijt 

Alicise  ux.   Rad.   Basset,  S.p. 
militis,  1377.") 


Alicia,  uxor  Rob'ti  Moton  de  Elizabetha,   uxor   Ricardi   Grey  de 

Pekulton,  militis,    astat.    30  Codnore,  aetat.  17  annor'  an0  2  R.  2. 

an'or'  2  R.  2.     =F  =F 


Thomas.=p  Henricns,  D'n's  Grey.     Elizabetha,  ux.  Joh'is  Zouche. 


Rob  tus. 


Henricus,  ultimus  D'n's  Grey  de  Codnore. 


Thomas  Basset  de  Fledbnrgh=pMargeria,  filia  WiU'mi 
in  Com.  Notts.  Meringe. 


Ricardus=pElizabetha,     Will'm's  Basset=p.  . 


Basset, 
miles. 


filia  Joh'is    de  Muskham. 
Denham. 


Catherina,  ux.  Thomas 
Sutton  de  Aram, 
militis. 


Joh'es=p.  .  .  .  filia  D'ni 


Basset. 


Burgh. 


....  uxor    Catherina,  ux.       Henrietta1 
Thomae         Guidonis  Fair-       Sutton. 
Powtrell.      fax. 


Edwardus  Basset  de  Fledburgh,  1569. 


Will'm's  Sutton. 
E 


50  THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


fiittlUljpi)  Of  IStOtlUlpfi. 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and±.  Vert,  an  eagle  displayed  argent.  [Biddulph.] 
2.  Argent,  a  chevron  romjm  between  three  crosses  bottonee  fitchee 
sable.  [Greentvay.]     3.  Sable,  a  saltire  engrailed  or.  [Salway.] 

Crest. — A  wolf  sejant  regardant  argent,  vulned  in  the  shoulder  gules. 

Henry  Bydulf  of  Over  Bydulf=pEirmie,  daughter 


in  the  County  of  Staff. 


of 


Thomas,  sonne  and  heire  of  Henry  Bydulf. 


Roger  Bydulf,*  sonne  of  Thoinas.=p  Randoll  Bydulf,  2  sonne. 


Roger  Bydulf,  sonne  of  Roger .=p  Will'm  Bydulf,  yonger  sonne. 


John  Bydulf,  sonne=p  Agnes,  wyf  to  Richard  the  sonne  of  Will'm 

of  Roger.  Brounssone. 


Thomas  of  Overton.=F 


Thomas  of  Overton.=pMargaret. 


Robert  Bydulf,  sonne=pCicely,  one  of  the  d.      Elene.  Alice. 


of  John. 


and  heires. 

Margaret.      Werburga. 


Will'm  Bydulf,  sonne=pElene,  cousin  and  heire  of  Richard  the  sonne 
of  Robert.  I  of  Will'm  Grenway. 


Sr  Robert  Aston  de=plsabell.  Richard  Bydulf,  sonne  of= 

Com.  Staff.,  K.  Will'm. 


Petronill,  d.  of  Sr  Robert  Aston.n=Richard  Bydulf,  sonne  of  Richard. 

A  I 

*  "  This  Eoger  Bydulf,  Henry  Verdun,  and  Eobert  of  Knyperslegh,  held  the 
manner  of  Bydulf  of  Theobald  Lord  Verdun  of  Alveston,  in  chief,  anno  24  E.  1." 


Harry  ?oane  S&raZcUcEnpraver'dc  London 


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51 


A| 


Elizabeth,  John  Bydulf,  Joyce,  mar.  Catherine,  wyf  to  Will'm 

mar.  to  eldest  sonne,  to  Rauf  Calverley,  to  whome  she 

Humfrey  sans  yssue.  Porter.  bare  a  sonne  Richard. 
Leffh. 


Humfrey  Salway  of  Stanford.=p.  .  .  .  daughter  of  ...  .  Strelley. 


John  Salway  of  Stamford  in=pMargery,  d.  of  Hugh  Erdeswyke 
Com.  "Wigorn.  of  Sandon,  Ar. 


Richard=f=Margaret    Cicely,  wyf  to  Hum-     Joyce,  first  mar.  to  Will'm 


Bydulf  of 
Bydulf. 


Salway.       frey  Coningesby  of    Ashby,    after    to    Rauf 
Neene  Solers,  Ar.         Wolfesley    of    Wolfesley, 
Knight. 


John  Bydulf,  eldest  Francis  Bydulf  of  Bydulf=plsabell,  d.  of  Sr  Thomas 
sonne,  dyed  sans  in  the  County  of  Staff.,  Giffard  of  Chillinton  in 
yssue.  Esquire,  now  lyving  the   County  of   Staff., 

1583.  Knight. 


Richard  Bydulf ,     1.  Ursula,     2.  Mary,  wyf    3.  Dorothe.    4.  Catherine. 


sonne  &   heire,    sans 
setatis  24  annor'    yssue. 
1583. 


to  Thomas 
Rudyard  of 
Rudyard  in 
Com.  Staff. 


5.  Brigide. 


Fratjncis  Byddulphe. 


3$ototS  ot  dPIfortr,  tic. 


Elford,  m. 
Scotteshay,  haya. 
Haseley,  7  Virg. 
Ocle. 
Alrewas. 
Kinge's  Bromley. 


V  Staff. 


Sr  Richarde=pMauld,  da.  &  heire  of 
StafForde.        the  L.  Caumville. 


Maulde,  da.=pSr  Thomas  Arderne. 
and  heire.        Inq.  15  R.  2. 
A  I 

e  2 


52  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

A  I 


Sr  John  Arderne,  aetat.  21  an'or'  15  R.  2.=f=Maulde,  da.  of .  .  .  . 
Inq.  10  H.  4. j 

Maulde,  da.  and  heire,  83 tat.  12  an'or'^Thomas  Stanley,  Knight, 
an0  10  H.  4.  |  obijt  4  H.  6,  1425. 

Maulde.=pSr  John  Stanley,  founder  of  the  C hauntry= Anne. = Elizabeth, 
at  Elforde  anno  1474. 


John=p  Sr  Hmnfrey    Margery,  mar.     A  da.  mar.     A  da.  mar. 

Stanley.  [  Stanley.  to  Willm  to  Henry       to  ...  . 

^  Staunton.*  Ferrers.  Savage  of 


Wocestr. 


*  This  is  a  mistake.  Margery  Staunton  was  daughter  of  John  Stanley,  son  and 
heir  of  Sir  John  and  Maude.  (See  Shaw  under  Elford,  and  also  the  pedigree  of 
Brooke  of  Haselor  in  this  Visitation,  post,  page  57.)  The  pedigree  given  in  Lord 
Hatherton's  MS.  is  more  complete  than  the  above,  and  includes  the  issue  and 
descendants  of  Sir  Humphrey  Stanley  of  Pipe.  According  to  that  pedigree,  Sir 
John  Stanley  (son  of  Sir  Thomas  by  the  heiress  of  Arderne)  had  two  sons,  John  of 
Elford,  and  Humphrey  of  Pipe.  The  former  had  issue  (by  Elizabeth  his  wife) 
three  daughters,  his  coheiresses,  viz. :  Maud,  married  to  William  Ferrers  of  Tarn- 
worth  ;  Anne,  married  to  Christopher  Savage  of  Worcestershire ;  and  Margery, 
wife  of  William  Staunton.  William  Perrers  is  no  doubt  an  error,  for,  according  to 
Dugdale's  "  Warwickshire,"  and  the  Visitation  of  that  county  taken  in  1619,  it  was 
Sir  John  Perrers  of  Tamworth  who  married  Maud  Stanley.  Sir  Humphrey  Stanley 
"  of  the  Pype  "  (continues  the  pedigree)  married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Sir  James  Lee 
of  Stone,  and  by  her  had  issue  three  sons  and  two  daughters,  viz. :  (1)  Sir  John  of 
the  Pype,  who  was  father,  by  Margaret  his  wife,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Gerard,  of 
two  daughters  and  coheirs,  viz.,  Isabel,  married  to  Walter  Moyle  of  Kent  (and 
had  a  daughter  and  heiress  Mary,  married  to  [Erasmus]  Heveningham),  and 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  Sir  John  Hercy  of  Grove,  Notts;  (2)  William  Stanley,  who 
married  [Margaret],  daughter  of  [Thomas]  Comberford,  and  had  issue  an  only 
child  Dorothy,  married  to  Christopher  Heveningham ;  (3)  Humphrey  Stanley, 
"  parson  of  Clyfton."  The  daughters  were,  Maud,  wife  of  Thomas  Wolverston,  and 
Alice,  wife  of  Thomas  Swinnerton.  According  to  Poster's  "  Lancashire  Pedigrees," 
Sir  John  Stanley's  first  wife  was  Matilda  (Maud),  by  whom  he  was  father  of  John 
of  Elford,  and  Humphrey  of  Pipe  ;  his  second  was  Isabella,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard 
Vernon,  by  whom  he  had  three  daughters,  Alice,  Isabel,  and  Catherine ;  and  his 
third  wife  was  Dulcia,  daughter  of  ...  .  Legh,  by  whom  he  had  a  son  lloger. 

With  regard  to  the  two  Heveningham  matches  named  above,  it  is  observable 
that,  according  to  the  Visitation  of  Staffordshire  taken  in  1614  (Harl.  MS.  1439), 
Erasmus  Heveningham  had  issue  by  the  "  da.  &  heire  of  ....  Moyle "  a  son 
Christopher,  who  married  Dorothy,  "  da.  of  ....  Stanley,"  that  is  to  say  that 
Christopher  Heveningham  married  (if  this  pedigree  be  correct)  the  daughter  of  his 
great-grandfather's  brother.  This  is  stated  (Erdeswick,  p.  41)  to  be  "  not  impossible 
as  to  dates,"  and  it  appears  that  Isabella  Moyle  was  but  thirty-five  years  older  than 
her  grandson. 

There  is  an  able  article  on  the  Stanleys,  Pipes,  etc.,  of  Elford  and  Clifton- 
Campville  (signed  with  the  well-known  initials  "  S.  P.  W."),  in  the  second  volume 
of  the  "  Topographer."  Vide  also  Shaw,  i.,  354,  where  this  article  is  extensively 
cpuoted. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  53 


Anne,  da.  and  one  of  the=pSr  "VYiU'ni  Sniithe,=Isabell,*  da.  and  one  of 


heires  of  "Will'm  Staunton 
&  Margery  his  wife,  da. 
of  John  Stanley. 


Knight,  obi j fc  the  heires  of   Sr   John 

1526.  Nevill,  Marquis  Monta- 

ceut,  quas  obijt  1516. 


Margery.=pRicharde  Hudleston.=pSybell,  da.  of  ...  .  Croftes,  2  wife. 


Luce,  mar.     Anne,  mar.  to  John  Richard  Hudleston,  now  John  and 

to  John          Bowes    of    Elforde,  livinge,  mar.  the  Lady  Anthony, 

Brooke.         nowe  livinge,  Kl,  Waynman    of    Oxford-  sans 

=F  1583.        =p  sheire.  yssue. 

i T 


„  J.      i  i  i 

Rob'te.    John,  s.p.  Richard  Bowes  of=.  ...  da.  and  one  of  the 

—  Elforde  (a  foole]).     heires  of  Kebell  of  Leices- 
Jerosme.  tersheire. 


BotuKer  of  &mperSleg, 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Argent,  a  lion  rampant  between  three 
crosses  crosslet  fitche'e  gules.  [Bowyer.]  2.  Azure,  three  spades 
or,  handles  argent.  [Knipersley.]  3.  Azure,  two  bars  argent, 
in  chief  as  many  plates.  [Venables.] 

Crest. — Out  of  a  tower  gules,  a  demi-dragon  or,  langued  of  the  first. 

The  Hatherton  MS.  adds,  after  Venables,  Argent,  a  fire-pan  sable, 
enjlamed proper,  in  the  dexter  chief  a  crescent,  for  Haywood,  "but  not 
in  the  Vysitatyo'." 

*  The  Genealogists  are  silent  as  to  this  second  marriage  of  Isabel  Nevill  with 
Sir  William  Smith.  Her  first  husband  was  Sir  William  Huddleston,  Knt.,  and  he 
acquired  with  her  the  manor  and  estate  of  Sawston  in  Cambridgeshire,  still  enjoyed 
by  the  family.  By  her  Sir  William  was  father  of  the  Richard  Huddleston,  named 
above,  who  married  the  daughter  of  his  stepfather  by  his  first  wife,  Anne  Staunton, 
The  marriage  of  Sir  William  Smith  with  Isabel,  "  unius  hseredum  Johannis  Nevyle, 
militis,  Marchionis  de  Monteacuto,"  is  asserted  on  his  monument  at  Elford,  and  she 
is  stated  to  have  died  October  12,  1516. 

t  A  pencil  note  adds  "  not  in  Glover  "  ! 


54 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Will'ni  Venables        Thomas  Bowyer  of=i=Catherin,  da.  a,nd  sole  heire 


de  Bradwall. 


Knipersley   in    the 
Com.  of  Staff. 


of  Tho.  Knipersley  of 
Knipersley. 


Johanna,  uxor       Elena,  uxor       Will'm  Bowier^p.  .  .  .  da.  of . 


Thomas  Bering-     Rob'ti  de  of  Knipersley. 

ton.  Kniperslegh. 


Trubshaw. 
(Hatherton  MS.) 


Will'm  Bowyer=p.  .  .  .  da.  of ...  .  ErdesivyTie 


of  Knipersley. 


of  Sandon.    (lb.) 


Thomas  Bowier  of  Knipersley.=p.  .  .  .  da.  of  Cotton  of ...  .     (lb.) 


John  Bowier  of=f=Elizabeth,  da.  of  ...  .  Lewson  of 


Knipersley. 


Wolv'hampton  in  Com.  Staff. 


1 

Will 

m  Bowier=pKatherin,  daughter  of  S1-  Andrewe 

of  Knipersley. 

Br 

sareton  of  Breareton. 

Anne,  eldest 

1 
Maulde,  mar. 

Alice,  mar.      Elene,  mar. 

1 
Elizab. 

da.,  mar. 

to  Richarde 

to  Richard      to  Randulph 

mar.  to 

to  John 

Edge  of 

Sergeant  of    Rayne  of 

Will'm 

Wedgwoode. 

Horton  in 

Bagenhould    Elworth  in 

Berinton 

Com.  Staff. 

in  Com.           Com.  Cestr. 

of  Brad- 

Staff. 

wall. 

John  Bow-=FElizab.  da.  of 


ier  of  Kni- 
persley. 


Jo.  Buckenall 
of  Sidway  in 
Com.  Staff. 


Andrewe 
Bowier. 


Thomas   Bowier  of=F. 


Elene,  mar. 
to  Thomas 
Dorington 
of  Salop. 


Broadheath  or 
Heathouse  Grange 
in  Com.  Staff., 
thirde  sonne. 


daugh- 
ter of 
Foxe. 


Thomas.        Elizabeth. 
Will'm.         Elene. 
Alice. 

r~ 

A  daughter. 


Will'm  Bowyer  of=p. 


Heath  house 
Grange,  nowe 
livinere  1583. 


da.  of 
Stone 
of 

Lon- 
don. 


;®flfej>s^ 


Harry  Soan&.  Heraldic Engraveric  London 


THE   VISITATION   OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


55 


U 


Will'm  Bowier=pAnne  da.  &       George,      Thomas  Bow- 


of  Knipersley, 
nowe  livinge 
an0  1583,  Esq 


coheire  of  2  sonne,     yer  of  Stony- 
Will  'm  of  Lon-      lowe,  3  son', 
Haywood  of  don.  infra  dVm 
Stonylowe  in  Madeley. 
Com.  Staff. 


Margaret, 
mar.  to 
W.  Forde 
of  the 
Mosse  in 
Com.  Staff. 


John  Bowier,     Francis,  2  sonne.  Richard,  Anne,  1  da.     Ursula,  4. 

eldest  sonne,  —  5  sonne.  —  — 

setatis  26  Thomas,  3  sonne.         —  Alice,  2.  Elizabeth, 

an0  1583.  —  Will'm,  —  5. 

George,  4  sonne.  6  sonne.  Elene,  3. 

Will'm  Bowyer. 


3Srett  ot  mclc* 

Nicholas  Brett  of  Kele  in  the  Countye  of  Staff.1 


Thomas  Brette  of  Dimmesdale  in  Com.  Staff.^.  ...  da.  of  Baginholde. 


Randolphe  Brette  of  Dimmesdale.=f=Anne,  da.  of  Rob'te  Woode  of  Keele. 


1 

1 

Edward  Brette=pCicely,  da. 

Thomas=j=Margaret, 

Nicholas  Brette, 

of  Kele  in  the 

of  John 

Brette 

da.  of 

third  sonne,  a 

Countie  of 

Fitton,  a 

of  Wol- 

John 

minister,  mar.  & 

Staff.,  Esquier, 

younger 

stanton, 

Badley 

hath  yssue. 

nowe  livinge 

brother  of 

seconde 

of 

1583. 

the  house 
of  Gaws- 
worthe. 

sonne. 

Randolphe,  Elene,  mar.  Margarett,      Jane,  mar.  to  Thomas 

eldest  sonne.  to  Anthony  2  da.  Bowthe. 

—  Brocke  of  —  — 
Thomas,  2  sonne.  Handley  in  Mary,  3.         Isabell,  2. 

—  '  Com.  Staff.  — 
Will'm,  3  sonne.                                                 Elenore,  mar.  to  John 

a  Bourne. 


*  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.  has  this  note — "No  Armes  sett  downe  for  Brett. 
See  "  Doubtful  Arms,"  ante,  p.  30. 


56 


THE   VISITATION   OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.   1583. 


Randolph  Brett,=j=Margarette,  da.  of  Tho.  Chetwinde 
sonne  &  heire.        of  Ingestrie,  Ar. 


Edwardu     Raulfe,  2  sonne.     Thomas,  4  sonne.     Margaret,  1.     Mary,  3. 
Brette,  —  —  — 

eldeste        John,  8  sonne.       Will'm,  5  sonne.      Elene,  2. 
sonne. 

Edward  Brett. 


aSroofee  of  HaSelot\ 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Argent,  a  cross  engrailed  per  pale  sable 
and  gules,  in  the  first  quarter  an  annulet  of  the  last.  [Brooke.] 
2  and  3.  Quarterly — i.  and  iv.,  Argent,  on  a  bend  azure  three 
buck's  heads  cabossed  or  [Stanley]  ;  n.  and  in.,  Or,  on  a  chief 
indented  azure  three  plates  [Latham],  over  all  a  crescent  for 
difference. 

Margery,  da.  of  John  Stanley  of 
Yetell,  mar.  to  Will'm  Staunton. 


Richarde  Brooke  of  Snelstoir 
in  Com.  Derbye. 


Margery,*  da.  &  heire  to  WiU'in: 
Staunton,  mar.  to  Will'm  Smith. 


Thomas  Brooke  of  ...  .: 


Richard  Hudleston.1 


=Margery,  da.  & 
heire. 


John  Brooket  of  Haseler  in  the=pLucy,  da.  of  Rich.  Hudleston  of 
Countye  of  Staff.  Elforde  in  Com.  Staff. 

A 

*  Should  be  Anne. 

t  Shaw  (i.,  388)  asserts  that  this  John  Brooke  was  the  son  of  Sir  Robert  Brooke 
of  Lapley,  Knt.,  who  died  1  Ed.  VI.  (1547).  Harwood,  in  his  notes  to  Erdeswiek 
(edit.  1844,  p.  458),  repeats  Shaw's  mistake,  and  further  complicates  the  pedigree  by 
ignoring  altogether  the  existence  of  Robert,  who  entered  and  signed  this  pedigree. 
"John  Brooke"  (he  says)  "died  1  June,  13  Eliz.  (1571),  and  was  succeeded  by 
William  Brooke  his  son,  who  died  in  1641."  The  AVilliam  Brooke  to  whom  he  here 
refers  was  really  the  "  2  sonne  "  of  Robert  and  Catherine  nee  Agarde  (James,  the 
eldest  son,  having  died  s.p.),  and  he  succeeded  his  father  (Robert)  in  1597.  Dates 
do  not  seem  to  have  hud  any  importance  in  the  eyes  of  Dr.  Harwood.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  the  William  Brooke  who  died  in  1641  was,  according  to  his  M.I.  at  Elford, 
aged  62  at  his  death.  This  would  give  1579  as  the  date  of  his  birth,  that  is  to  say 
eight  years  after  the  death  of  his  assumed  father. 


THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


57 


Robert  Brooke  of=f=Catherin,  da.  of  Clement  Agarde      Jerome  Brooke, 


Haseler,  nowe  liv- 
inge  1583 


of  Foston  in  the  Countie  of  Derb.,       2  sonne. 
Ar. 


James,  eldest  sonne,      Will'm,  2      Susan,        Eleanor,  2.      Lucye,  3 
ietatis  7  annor'  1583.      sonne.  eldest.  daughter. 

Robert  Brooke. 


ISronfte  of  ffiasWor,  etc 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1.  Argent,  a  cross  engrailed  per  pale  sable  and 
gules,  in  the  first  quarter  an  annulet  of  the  last.  [Brooke.]  2. 
Argent,  on  a/ess  vert  between  three  demi-griffins  segreant  sable  as 
many  bezants.  [Smith.]  3.  Quarterly— i.  and  iv.,  Argent,  on  a 
betid  azure  three  buck's  heads  cabossed  or ;  n.  and  in.,  Or,  on  a 
chief  indented  azure  three  plates.  [Stanley  and  Latham.]  4. 
Gules,  three  crosses  crosslet  fitchee  and  a  chief  or.  [Arderne.] 

5.  Or,  a  chevron  gules  between  three  martlets  sable.  [Stafford.] 

6.  Azure,  three  lions  passant  in  pale  argent.   [Camville.] 

Ricardus  de  Stafford,=j=Matildis,  filia  et  una  hasredu' 


miles,  D'n's  de  Pipe. 


Will'mi  Camville,  militis, 
D'n'i  de  Clifton. 


Matildis,  filia  et  haeres  Ricardi  de  Stafford  =pThornas  Arderne, 
militis.  miles. 


Joh'es  Arderne,  miles,  filius  et  hseres=i=Matildis,  filia  .... 


Thorn  Ee 


Pilkina'ton. 


Matildis,  filia  et  hasres  Joh'is=f=Thomas  Stanley,  s'd's  filius  Joh'is  Stan- 


Arderne  de  Elford  in   Com 
Stafford,  militis 


ley,  militis,  Locitenentis  Reg.  H.  4  in 
Hibernia. 


Joh'es  Stanley  de  Elford  in  Com.  Staff.,  miles,— Matildis,  uxor 
ter  nuptus.  p'ma. 


58  THE   VISITATION   OF    STAFFORD SHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Aj 

I 

Joh'es  Stanley  de  Elford,  Ar.,  filius  et  hasres  Joh'is.=F 
I 

Margeria,  filia  et  coheres  Joh'is=j=WiH'm's  Staunton,  Ar.,  maritus 


Stanley  de  Elford. 


Margeriae  de  Stanley. 


Anna,  filia  et  haeres  Will'mi  Staunton,=pWiH'm's  Smith,  miles,  D'n's  de 


et  su83  conjugis  Margeriae. 


Elford,  ex  jure  ux.  Annae,  2  ux. 


sine. 


Margeria,  filia  et  ha3res=j=Kicardus  Huddleston,  Ai1.,  p'mam  accepit  ux. 
Will'mi  Smith,  militis,  et 
sua?  conjugis  Annas. 


Margeria'  Smith. 

(Gules,  fretty  argent,  a  crescent  or  for  difference.) 


Lucia,  filia  astate  maxima  et  coka3resMargeria3,=pJoh'es  Brooke  de  Hasler 


uxoris  Ricardi  Hudleston,  Ai'migeri 


in  Com.  Staff.,  filius 
Thomas. 


Rob'tus  Brooke  de  Haseler  in  Com.  Stafford,=pCatherina,  filia  Clementis 


filius  et  haares  Joh'is,  sup'stes  1583. 


Agard  de  Foston  in  Com. 
Derb.,  Ar. 


I  I  III 

Jacobus  Brooke,      Will'm's  Brooke,      Susanna,      Aleonor,      Lucia, 

primogenitus.  2  genitus.  filia  1.  filia  2.         filia  3. 


asrotujljton  of  St'oufl&toin* 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Gules,  a  chevron  between  three  "  brockes  " 
argent.  [Broughton.]  2.  Napton  (blank).  3.  Argent,  a  chevron 
rompu  between  three  crosses  bottonee  fitchee  sable.  [Greenway.] 

Opposite  the  shield  is  written  :  "  This  Thomas  Broughton  claymeth 
to  beare  for  Napton  these  armes,  Ar.,  lyon  ramp.  g.  crowned  or.'''' 

Lord  Hatherton's  MS.  gives  the  arms  of  Napton  as — Or,  on  a  f esse 
azure,  three  escallops  argent. 

*  This  pedigree  requires  a  thorough  investigation.  According  to  Erdeswick 
(edit.  1844,  p.  Ill),  the  Broughtons  were  descended  paternally  from  Napton. 
Roger  de  Napton,  son  of  Henry  de  Napton,  living  12  and  13  Edw.  I.,  "  had  issue 
Elias  de  Broughton,  who  had  issue  John,  who  had  issue  "William,  who  had  issue 


THE   VISITATION   OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,   A.D.    1583. 


59 


Roger  Brocton  al's=r.  .  .  .  daughter   and  heire 


Broughton  of 
Broughton. 


of  Roger  Napton,  Lord  of 
Charlton  in  Com.  Staff. 


John  Broughton.=j=Eve,  one  of  the  da.  and  heires  of  Thomas 
Grenewaye  of  Bedulf. 


Thomas  Brockton  al's=p Elizabeth,  da.  of  John  Younge  of 
Broughton.  Charnes. 


Richard  Broughton  of  Broughton  in=pMargaret,  daughter  of  Hughe 


Com.  Stafforde,  ancyently  called  Brocton. 


Sandforde  of  Sandforde. 


Richarde  Broughton=i=Catherin,  da.  of  John    John,  2.      Humfrey,  4. 


of  Broughton. 


Aston    of   Aston  in 
Com.  Cestr. 


Roger,  3.     Frauncis,  5. 


Richard,  who  had  issue  John,  who  had  issue  Thomas,  who  had  issue  Richard,  who 
had  issue  Thomas,  father  of  Francis  Broughton,  both  living."  A  pedigree  (said  to 
be  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  Henry  St.  George  the  elder)  in  the  Harl.  MS.  1439, 
brought  down  to  1623,  commences  with  Simon  de  Chorleton,  living  1256,  whose 
daughter  and  heir  married  Henry  Napton,  and  had  issue  a  "  da.  &  sole  heir  "  Julian, 
married  to  Roger  Broughton.  Their  son  and  successor  was  "Ely  Broughton," 
living  1331,  who  married  "  da.  &  coheire  of  Reynold  of  Charnes,"  and  was  father  by 
her  of  John  Broughton,  living  1368.  This  John  had  issue  by  Margaret  his  wife, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Bromley,  Knt.,  a  son  Thomas,  living  in  1405,  who  married 
"  Elena  filia  et  coheres  Bic'i  Greneway  de  Bidulfe,"  and  had  Thomas,  living  1463, 
who  married  Margaret,  da.  of  John  Younge  of  Charnes. 

Another  version  of  the  Broughton  pedigree  will  be  found  in  Betham's 
"Baronetage"  (ii.,  242),  and  also  in  Kimber  and  Johnson  (ii.,  182).  This  version 
is  said  to  be  taken  from  "  a  MS.  genealogy  in  the  possession  of  the  present  baronet," 
and  it  appears  to  have  been  compared  with  Vincent's  Staffordshire  in  the  College  of 
Arms.  Here  the  family  is  deduced  lineally  from  the  Vernons  of  Shipbrook.  Adam 
de  Napton,  we  are  informed,  was  son  of  Richard  de  Vernon,  a  younger  son  of  Hugh, 
Baron  of  Shipbrook.  This  Adam  de  Napton  was  "  so  called  from  the  place  of  his 
abode  [Napton,  Co.  Warwick]  and  possessions,"  and  he  "  gave  for  arms  Or,  on  a 
fesse  Azure  three  escallops  of  the  field."  He  was  father  of  Henry  de  Napton,  who, 
by  "  the  sister  of  Roger  Meuland,  Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry,"  had  issue  a 
second  son  Roger,  Lord  of  Broughton,  etc.,  which  Roger  married  Julian  de  Charnes 
(or,  "as  some  pedigrees  say,  Julian,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Roger  Napton"),  and 
had  issue  "  Ely,  and  Reginald  a  priest."  This  Ely,  we  are  told,  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Bromley,  and  was  great-great-grandfather  of  the  John 
Broughton  who  married  the  coheiress  of  Greneway. 

It  is  singular  that  the  Broughtons  abandoned  the  three  brocks,  and  subsequently 
adopted  a  totally  different  coat,  viz.,  Argent,  two  bars  gules,  on  a  canton  of  the  last 
a  cross  of  the  first.  Crest :  A  sea-dog's  head  gules,  finned  and  eared  argent. 
These  are  the  bearings  allowed  to  Sir  Bryan  Broughton  of  Broughton,  Bart.,  by 
Dugdale  at  his  Visitation  in  1663-4,  and  they  are  still  borne  by  the  family. 


60 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Thomas  Broughton=pMary,  da.  of 


of  Broughton,  liv- 
ino-e  1583. 


Frau ncys 
Bos  of  Lax- 
ston  in  Com. 
Notts. 


Anne,  mar.  to 

Thomas  Vise 
of  Byshopes 
Offley  in  Com. 
Staford. 


Jane,  mar.  to 
Thomas  Winston 
of  .  .  .  .*  in  Com. 
Surrey. 


Elizabeth, 
mar.  to 
George 
Dodde  of 
Petshay  in 
Com.  Salop. 


Ursula,  2,  mar. 
to  Rob't  Fair- 
fax, brother  to 
Sr  Will'm  Fair- 
fax of  Gillinge 
in  Com.  Ebor. 


Jane,  3,  mar. 
to  Richard 
Beverley,  2 
sonne  of 
Beverley  of 
Selby  in 
Com.  Ebor. 


Margaret, 

4  daugh- 
ter. 

Dorothe, 

5  da. 


Mary,  6  da. 

Catherin, 
7  da. 


Frauncis,  eldest 
sonne,  astat.  27 
annor'  1583. 


Bryan,  2  sonne.  John,  4.  Thomas,  6. 

Edwarde,  3  sonne.      Peter,  5.         Richarde,  7. 

Thomas  Broughton. 


JSrougfttou  of  ilons&on. 


Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Gules,  a  chevron  between  three  "  broclces  " 
argent,  within  a  border  of  the  last.  [Broughton.]  2  and  3. 
Gules,  a  chevron  engrailed  between  three  cinque/oils  argent. 
[Acton.] 


Thomas  Brockton  al's  Broughton^Isabell,  da.  &  heire 
of  Longdon  in  Com.  Staff.,  of  Walter  Actone 

descended  of  the  house  of  Brough-     in  Com.  Wigorn. 
ton  of  Broughton.f 


*  Of  Flexworth  (Hatherton  MS.) ;    of  Wanborough  (Harl.  MS.  1439). 

f  According  to  Betham  and  others,  he  was  son  of  William,  and  grandson  of 
Roger  Broughton,  which  Roger  is  stated  to  have  been  third  son  of  Richard 
Broughton  of  Broughton  by  Catherine  Aston. 


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61 


Eleanor,  da.^pRicharde^Elizabeth, 


of  Humfrey 
Ruggeley  of 
Longdon. 
1  wife. 


Brough- 
ton  of 
Longdon, 
livinge 
in  anno 
1583. 


da.  of 
John  Har- 
court  of 
Kanton 
in  Com. 
Staff. 


John  Brongh- 
ton,  2  sonne, 
mar.  Elizabeth, 
da.  of ...  . 
Thorpe  of  Essex. 


Lewis  Brongh- 
ton,  mar.  da.  of 
Foulke  Barrett 
of  Shropshire. 


John  Broughton, 
2  sonne,  mar. 
Elene,  da.  of 
....  Barton; 
nowe  livinge 
at  Longdon. 


Anne,  mar.= 

John 

Broughton. 


:John  Brough- 
ton of  Wolver- 
hampton in 
Com.  Staff. 


Edmonde,  eldest 
sonne,  mar.  Aud- 
ley,  da.  of  Will'm 
Holstocke, 
Comptroller  of 
the  Shipps. 


John,  eldest 
sonne,  set.  9 
anor  1583. 


Edwarde, 

2  sonne. 

Thomas, 

3  sonne. 


Eliza- 
beth. 


X'pr,  2  sonne. 


Edmonde 
Broughton, 
eldeste  Will'm, 

sonne.  3  sonne. 


Edwarde 
Broughton, 
eldest  sonne, 
jetat.  40 
anor.  et 
amplius, 
1583,  at 
Longdon. 


Frauncis,  eldest  da.  Foulke  Broughton,  eldest  sonne,  of 

—  Worcester  towne,  nowe  livinge. 
Catherin,  2  da.  — 

—  Andrewe,  seconde  sonne,  dwellinge 
Maulde,  3  da.  in  Lond'. 

Elizabeth.  Thomas,   3   sonne,  Apprentize  in 
Worcester. 


Jhon  Beoughton. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Cftolmclrg  ot  Copntfjall 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Gules,  two  close  helmets  in  chief  argent, 
and  a  garb  in  ~base  or.  [Cholmeley.]  2.  Lozengy  argent  and 
azure,  a  bend  or,  fretty  gules.  [Cheyny.]  3.  Argent,  three  cocks, 
2  and  1,  sable  [Capenhurst]  ;  in  the  centre  acrescent  for  difference. 

Henry ke,  t'pe  E.  1. 


Hughe  Cholmeley. 


WiH'm.=F 


Gilberte,=pKatherin,  da.        Eicharde. 


Lo. 

Talbot. 


of  the  Kinge 
of  Portugal!. 


Will'm,  =pMaulde,  da.  and 


2  sonne. 


one  of  the  heires 
of  Chorley. 


Elizabeth.=FPiicharde.        Sr  John^.  ...  da.  &  heire  of  John 


Cheynie. 


Capenhurst. 


Will'm.^pMaulde,  da.  and  heire. 


Richarde.=j=Ellene,  da.  of  John 
Damporte. 


John,  Eeceaver  to  the=p.  ...  da.  of 


L.  Brooke,  dwelt  at 
Copenhall. 


Pisstocke. 


Richarde.^p.  .  .  .  d.  and  one  of      A  da.,  to      Elizabeth,      Ellin,  to 
the  heires  of  Hinton.       to  John         Hainan 

Sr  Tho.  Dutton.  Hanmer.        Hassall. 


Richard.=j=Elizabeth,  da.  of  Sr  Eaulfe  Brearton. 


Eicharde,  s.p.    Eandall,       (2)  Anne,  to  (1)  Catherin,  to  Ursula,to 

S'jante  at  Eandall  Eichard  Thomas 

Main-  Prestland.  Standley. 

wairinge. 


George,  s.p. 


the  Lawe, 
Eecorder 
of  London. 


A 


b 


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B 


Sr  Hughe  Chohneley.=pAnne,  da.  of  George  Doleman. 


Hughe.        Kicharde.        Randall.        Frauncis,  a  daughter. 


John,  mar.  da.=j= 
of ...  .  Allynn 


John  (sic),  2  sonne.=p Joane, da.  of Turner. 

I 


Thomas  Cholmeley=pMargery  d.  of  Will'm. 

of  Copenhall.  Morrys  Aynion. 

Edward  Cholmeley  of  Copenhall  in  Com.=7=Eleanor,  d.  of        Henry 


Stafford,  livinge  1583;  mar.  to  his  2  wife, 
da.  of  Rich.  Powell  of  Ednoppe  in  Com. 
Salop,  Esq.  =f= 


Thomas 
Langton. 


Richarde,        Henry  Cholmeley,  eldest  sonne, 
2  sonne.  setat.  26  an'o  1583. 


Elizabeth,  da.   of  .  .  .  .=pRichard.=j=Dennis,  da.  to        Henry.: 
Michell  of  Stamerham.  ....  Phillips. 


Rob't,  mar.  Anne,     Ben-    John,  5=plsabell,  dau.  of  John    Will'm.  =p 


d.  of . . . .  Hastinges.    net.      sonne. 


Hare  of  London. 


Henry,  1.    Nicholas,  2.     John,  3.        Will'm. 


Humfrey,  mar.  Eliz.,  d.  and        John,  2  sonne.=p 
coheire  of  Slaide. 


John.        Thomas.        Richarde.        John. 

Will'm.     Rob'te.  Nicholas. 

Edwaed  Cholmeley. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Colpr  of  Sarlagton* 

Arms. — Argent,  on  a  chevron  azure  behveen  three  demi-unicorns  courant 

gules  as  many  acorn  slips  or. 
Crest. — A  demi-Moor  affronte proper,  with  rings  in  his  ears  or,  holding 

in  his  dexter  hand  an  oak  branch,  frncted  or. 

Arma  concessa  Rob'to  Colyare  de  Darlaston  per  l'ras  patentes  dat' 
an'o  p'imo  reg'  Eliz',  per  W.  Hervy,  turn  Clarencieulx  Regem  Armor'. 

(By  the  side  of  the  crest.)  Moras  demidiatus  asurij  colorijs,  dextra 
tenens  ramu'clu'  querci'um  aureu',  anulettis,  per  utrumq'  aurem  penden- 
tibus,  aureis. 

Jacobus  Colyar  de  Darleston  in  Corn.  Staff.,  Armiger.^ 


Rob  tus  Colyar  de  Darlaston  in=pAgnes,  filia  Thomas  Venables 


Com.  Staff.,  Ar.,  modo  superstes 
in  an'o  D'ni  1583. 


de  Kinderton  in  Palantinu' 
Cestrise,  militis. 


Jacobus  Colyar,  Christopherus  Ric'dus  Thurstanus  Rob'tus 

primogenitus  Colyar,  Colyar,  Colyar,  Colyar, 

films  et  hseres,  2  filius.  tertius  4  filius.  5  filius. 

astat.23,an°1583.  filius. 


Elizabetha,  filia      Margareta,  2  filia.      Cecilia,  4  filia.       Maria,  6  filia. 
astate  maxima,  —  —  — 

nupta  Jacobo  Isabella,  3  filia.  Letecia,  5  filia.     Agnes,  7  filia. 

Skrimshere  de 
Norbery  in 
Com.  Staff. 


Cortrtt  of  HonfinU* 

Rob'te  Corbette  of  Hatherton  in  Com.  Cestr. 


Richarde  Corbette=pJoane,  daughter  of 


of  Hatherton. 


.  .  Crouche. 


Aems. — Argent,  three  ravens  proper,  2  and  1.     (Hatherton  MS.) 


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65 


Thomas  Corbet=pElizabeth,     Roger,  2,  mar Anne,  mar.  to  . 


of  Hatherton, 
nowe  of  Hon- 
forde  in  Com. 
Staf.  1583. 


da.  of 
Rob'te 
Spicer  of 

New- 
porte. 


Walter,  3.  Joane,  mar.  to 

—  John  Andrewes  of 

Will'm,  mar ,  Codsell  in  Com. 

4.  Staford. 


Thomas,  astat.  18  an'or'  1583.        Anne. 

Thomas  Corbett. 


CogncK  of  OTJnrtou  Cokucj), 


Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Or,  on  a  bend  sable  three  trefoils  slipped 

argent.  [Coyney.]     2  and  3.  Argent,  a  lion  rampant  guardant 

ermines.  [Burnell.] 
Crest. — A   cubit  arm  erect,   vested  sable,  slashed  or,  holding  in  the 

hand  proper  a  faulchion  argent,  embrued  gules,  hilt  and  pomel 

gold. 

Robert  Coyne  of=j=Alice,  daughter  of  Hugh  Erdeswike 
Weston  Coyne.       of  Sandon,  Esqr. 


Robert  Coyne  of  Weston  Coynen=Dorothe,  daughter  of  Tho. 
in  Com.  Staff.  Meverell  of  Throwley. 


John=f=Margery,  da.     Walter,  twise     Rob't,     Jane,  mar.     Pernell, 


Coyne 
of 

Weston 
Coyne. 


of  Jo.  Spur-  mard  and  had    s.p. 

stowe  of  yssue  by  the 

Spurstowe  in  second  wife. 
Com.  Cestr. 


to  Tho.  mar.  to 

Bucknall  .... 

of  Ubbel-  Dolman 

ley  in  Com.  de  Com. 

Staff.  Derby. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Edward 
Coyne, 
3  sonne, 
s.p. 


.(1)  I 

Winifred,  da.=p  George  =  Margery, 


of  Jo.  Skrim- 
shire  of  Nor- 
bnry  in  Com. 
Staff. 


Coyne 
of  Chip- 
pen  all 
in  Co. 
Salop. 


John,  1  sonne. 


da.  of 

Nedeham 
of  Shen- 
ton,  sister 
to  Rob't 
Ne  deli  am. 


Dorothe,  mar.  to 
James  Barlowe  of  Ip- 
stones  in  Com.  Staff. 

Jane,  died  sans  issue. 

Eloner,  mar.  to 
Wai'm  Allen  of 
Brookehouse  in  Com. 
Staff.,  gen. 


John  Coyney  of  Weston  Coyne  in=pAnne,  cla.  of  Anthony  Wolfesley 
Com.  Staff.,  Esq1' :  nowe  livinge  1583.     of  Wolfesley  in  Com.  Staff. 


Thomas  Coyne,=pJane,  daughter  of    John,  2      Susan,     Cassandra,  2  da 


eldest  sonne, 
setat.  23  an. 
1583. 


Ralfe  Downe  of    sonne. 
Utkington  in  — 

Com.  Cestr.  Adam,  3 

sonne. 


1  da. 


John  Coyne. 


Margerie,  3  da. 
Mary,  4  da, 

John  Coyne. 


Crompton  of  CfircMcg  antr  <#tom, 

....  Crompton.=j= 


Richarde- 
Cromp- 
ton  of 
London, 
mercer. 


^Elizabeth,  da.  of    Will'm  Crompton=fCatherin,  da.  of 


Girlinge  of    of  London, 
Norfolke  vel  mercer. 

Suffolke. 


Rawson,  widdowe  of 
....  Richardson  of 
London. 


Will'm  Crompton,*  eldeste  sonne,  nowe  livinge  ;     Thomas, 
dwellinge  in  the  Abbey  at  Stone.  2  sonne. 

*  This  William  Crompton  was  disclaimed  by  Glover  at  Uttoxeter  August  8, 
1583.  According  to  MS.  E.  D.  N.  13,  in  Coll.  Arm.,  and  Lord  Hatberton's  MS.,  the 
following  "  Arms  and  Creaste "  were  "  gevyn  to  Will1"  Crompton,  of  Stone,  in 
Staffordsh.,  by  Will™  Flower,  al's  Norrey  Kinge  of  Amies,  A0  1588" — Argent,  on 
a  chief  vert  three  pheons  or.  Crest :  In  a  mural  crown  or,  a  sea-horse's  head 
argent. 


C&pwg 


Harry  Soane  Heraldic  En^rdverdcZondon 


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67 


1 

Margaret,  the  first  wife 

1 
Grace,    mar.    to 

1 
Rose,  mar. 

1 

Anne,  dyed 

of  Sr  Thomas   Cotton 

John  Cotton,  the 

to 

yonge. 

of  Kent. 

second  brother  of 

Latus 

Sr  Thomas. 

of  the 
Northe. 

Richard  Crompton  of  Checkley  in=j=Catherin,  da.  of  Oliver  Richardson 


the  Countie  of  Staf .,  Esqr,  Justice 
of  Peace  and  quorum ;  living 
1583. 


of    London,    grocer,   by   his    wife 
Catherin,  da.  of  ...  .  Rawson. 


Hughe  Crompton,  eldest  sonne,     Will'm  Margarette,    Elizabeth, 

astat.  12  annor'  1583.  Crompton,    eldest  da.        2  daughter. 

2  sonne. 


BtcftntS  of  35flImtston, 

Arms. — Ermine,  a  cross  patonce  sable. 

Will'm  Dickens  of  Bobington  in=j= 
the  Countye  of  Staff orde. 


Thomas  Dickens  of  Bobington. 


John  Dickens=j=Eleanor,  da. 
of  Bobington,  !  of ...  . 
eldest  sonne.    \  Blounte. 


Thomas  Dickens,  2  sonne. 


Richarde  Dickens. =p 


Hughe  Dickens1 
of  Bobino-ton. 


Humfrey: 
Dickens 
of  Bob- 
ington. 


:Joane,  da. 
of  Hum- 
frey  Lee 
of  Envill. 


Thomas  Dickens=j=Edith,  da.  of  Tho's 


of  Morehall  in 
Com.  Stafford. 


;Elizab. 
da.  of 


Thomas. 

Will'm. 

Richarde. 


Corbin  &  his  wife, 
the  d.  of  Moore  of 
Moorehall. 


Alice,  da.  and=j=Mathewe 


heire  to  her 
mother. 


Moreton 
of  Ingle- 
ton. 

F  2 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


A| 


Will'm  Dickens=rAlice,  the        Edwarde       Isabell,  roar.       Mary. 


of  Bobington 
in  the  Conntye 
of  Staff  or  de  ; 
nowe  livinge 
1583. 


da.  of 
Mathewe 
More  ton 
of  Ingle- 
ton. 


Moreton        to  John 

of  Ingle-       Egginton  of  Constance. 

ton.  Roberston  in  — 

Corn.  Staff.  Margaret. 


John  Dickens,  setat.  4        Mary.         Alice.         Elizabeth, 
annor'  anno  1583. 

Subscrybed  by  me  Rychard  Whorwood 
for  Wyll'm  Dyckyns. 


GFntitttore  of  ComfccrfoiU 

Arms. — Argent,  a /esse  gules  between  three  horseshoes  sable. 
Alanus  Comberford.=p 


Ricardus. 


Margeria,  senior.=f=        Agnes,  media  soror.=p        Anna,  junior.5 


Margeria,  uxor  Rad'fi         Sibilla,  uxor  Ricardi        Johannes 
Bolinghull.  Hopwas.  Shepy. 


Ricardus  Bolinghull.^ 


Will'm's  Hopwas.= 


AlanuB 
Quilet. 


Johannes  Bolinghull.^        Johannes  Hopwas. 


Alicia,  uxor  .  .  . 
Kinge,  obiit  s.p. 


Will'm's  Hopwas,: 
nunc  quserens. 


Hucusq.  ex  pargameno 
antiquo. 


Anne,  da.  and  sole  heire  of  Wiirm=j=Thomas  Endsore  of  Cumberforde 
Hopwas  of  Cumberforde.  in  Com.  Staf. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


69 


A| 


John  End-=pHelene, 


sore  of 

Cuniber- 

forde. 


da.  of 
Savage. 


Edwarde  End- 
sore  of  Pagetts 
Bromley, 
second  sonne. 


:.  .  .  .  da.  of 

John  Cooper 
of  Bromley. 


Humfrey 
Endesore, 
3  sonne, 
mar.  da.  of 


Thomas  End-=pDorothe,  da.      Richard    Ende-=Elene,  da.      Thomas 


sore*  of 
Cumberforde; 
nowe  livinge 
1583. 


of  Hmnfrey  sore  of  Pagettes  of  Raulf         Endsore, 

Cumberforde  Bromely  in  Okeover  of    mar. 

of  Cumber-  Com.  Stafforde  ;  Okeover da. 

ford  in  Com.  nowe  livinge  of  ...  . 

Staf.  1583. 


Christopherus  Endesore, 
eldest  sonne,  astat.  21 
an'or'  1583. 


Walter,  2  sonne.        Elizabeth,  eldest. 
John,  3  sonne.  Susan,  2. 

Will'm,  4  sonne.        Isabell. 

Thomas  Endesore. 


tiPbenntt  ot  asajnttrngtcm, 

Aems. — Gules,  on  a  /esse  between  three  estoiles  argent,  as  many  mullets 
sable. 

Richarde  Everarde  of  Shenton=pJoyce,  da.  of  ...  . 
in  Com.  Leicester.  Langham  of  Gopshill. 


Rob  te  Everarde  of= 
Shenton  in  Com. 
Leicest. ;  nowe 
Hvinge  1583. 

A 


:Margarette,  da.  of 
Thomas  Wolver- 
ston  of  Wiforde 
in  Com.  Staff. 


Will'm,  mar.  & 
hath  yssue. 

George,  sans 
yssue. 


Thomas 


*  The  Harl.  MS.  6128  gives  another  son  to  Thomas  and  Dorothy,  viz.  George 

Ensor,  who, by  " dau.  of Coleman,"  was  father  of  John  Ensor  of  Wilnecote, 

Co.  Warwick.  Shaw  (i.,  434)  has  followed  this;  but  it  is  undoubtedly  wrong. 
George  Ensor  was  a  son  of  John  Ensor  of  "Wilnecote,  and  brother  of  Barnaby  Ensor 
of  the  same  place.  See  the  "  Herald  and  Genealogist,"  ii.,  p.  301,  where  the  identity 
of  George  is  clearly  established. 


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.11 

Richarde=j=Jane,  da.  and 

o  1    1 
Sampson, 

1    1 
Maulde,  mar. 

1    1 
Joyce,  mar 

Everarde 

heire  of  Rich. 

3  sonne. 

to  Richard 

to  Tho. 

of  Shen- 

Waterton    de 



Woodhall. 

Barforde. 

ton. 

Com.Lincolne. 

John, 4 

— 



sonne. 

Mary,  mar.  to 

Margaret, 

I 

JohnBrudnall, 

mar.  to 

Richarde  Everarde,  eldest 

brother  to  Sr 

Sampson 

sonne,   setat.    16    an'or' 

Edmond 

"Wolfreston 

1583. 

Brudnall. 

Humfrey  Everarde  of  Whitington  in=j=Anne,  da.  of  Richard  Clerkson 


Com.  Staff. ;  nowe  livinge  1583 


Edwarde  Everarde, 
eldest  sonne,  as  tat. 
8  an'or'  1583. 


of  Whitington, &  his  onelyheire. 


John,  2  sonne.         Frauncis,        Alice,  3  da. 

—  eldest  da.  — 

Michaell,  3  sonne.  —  Joane,  4  da. 

Catherin, 
2  da. 


Humfrey  Everard. 


Arms. — Per  bend  dancettee  or  and  gules,  a  crescent  for  difference. 
Crest. — A  garb  or  between  two  wings  gules,  feathered  gold  (or  per  pale 
dancettee  gules  and  or). 

Thomas  Ferne.=F 


Will'm  Ferne=p  Joane,  da.  of  Aden  [Adam]  Beresforde  of 


of  Perwiche 


Fenny  Bentley,  Esqr,  in  Com.  Derby. 


Thomas  Feme  of  Grene 
in  the  Com.  of  Derby, 
and  of  Hognoston, eldest 


sonne. 


I 
John  Feme  of=j=Phillis,  da.  of  Rob'te 
Perwiche  in  Milward  of  Eton  in 

Com.  Derby.         Com.  Derbye. 


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71 


Edwarde  Feme, 
incouipos  mentis, 
3  Alius. 


Anne,  mar.  to  John 
Fitzherbert  of  Soiner- 
sail  in  Com.  Derb. 


Elizabeth,  2  da.,  mar.  to 
Anthony  Rothewood*  of 
Sandall  in  Com.  Ebor. 


Will'ni  Feme  of=FAnne,  da.  of 


Temple  Bel- 
wood  in  Com. 
Lincolne, 
sup'stes  1583. 


Rob'te  Shef- 
felde,  Esq1-, 
a  yonger 
brother. 


John  Feme  of  Crake-1 
marsh  e  in  Com.  Staff., 
second  sonne ;  livinge 
1583. 


:Anne,  da.  of 
Roger 
Jacksonne 
of  Ashburne 
in  le  Peke. 


John  Ferne,=pElizabeth,     Douglasse,     Will'm  Ferae,     Mary,  eldest, 
sonne  and        da.  of  a  virgin.        eldest  sonne. 


heire  ; 
livinge 
1583. 


John 
Nedeham 
de  Com. 
Hertf.,  Ar. 


John  Feme, 
2  sonne. 


Will'm  Feme,  natus  mense  Octob.  1583. 


Dorothe, 
seconde. 

Anne,  thirde. 

Phellis,  fourthe. 


Per  me  Joh'em  Ferne, 

filium  et  h'dem  Wilielmi  Ferne. 


dfmtJctmt 


Robertus  Finderne,  19  E.  3. 


Johannes  Finderne.= 


De  Com.  Staff.  Vpe  R.  2, 
veil  R.  4. 

Joh'es  de  Draycotte,  chTr. 
Joh'es  de  Verdun,  chTr. 
Joh'es  Bassett,  ch'l'r. 
Phillippus  de  Okeov',  ch'l'r. 
Thomas  de  Aston,  ch'l'r. 
Thomas  de  Tommehorne,  ch'l'r. 
Joh'es  de  Perton,  ch'l'r. 
Joh'es  Bagott,  ch'l'r. 
Will'm's  de  Schershull. 
Will'm's  Wastneys. 
Joh'es  Herun'ille. 
Rob'tus  Coyne. 

*  This  Anthony  is  called  "  Whorwood  of  Sandall "  in  a  pedigree  of  Ferne,  taken 
from  a  Visitation  of  Lincolnshire,  printed  in  the  "  Genealogist,"  iv.,  22. 

t  According  to  the  Harl.  MS.  1570,  Finderne  hore  Argent,  a  chevron  wavy 
between  three  crosses  formee  fitchee  sable. 


Johannes  Finderne. 


Rob'tus  Finderne.= 

A 


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A| 


Nicholaus  Finderne,  13  E.  4.=f= 


Rob  tus  Finderne.=p 


Nicholaus  Finderne. 


Thomas  Finderne.=F 


Georgius  Finderne.= 


Thomas  Finderne,  modo  defend' 


Will'm's  de  Kinardesley. 
Joh'es  de  Couly. 
Joh'es  de  Marnham. 
Joh'es  de  Whitemore. 
Will'm's  de  Bentley. 
Rad's  Honton. 
Rogerus  de  Bould. 
Joh'es  de  Pilletenhalle. 
Joh'es  de  Frodeshall. 
Thomas  de  Hexstall. 
Thomas  Mynners. 
Ric'us  de  Ruggeley. 
Ric'us  de  Jordan. 
Rad's  Okeov'. 
Henricus  de  Somerford. 
Joh'es  Childe  de  Buckerdon. 
Will'm's  de  Stonilowe. 
Thomas  de  Eyton. 


Mfhribzvt  ot  Hotfrorg,  etc. 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  8.  Argent,  a  chief  vaire  or  and  gules,  over 
all  a  bendlet  sable.  [Fitzherbert.]  2.  Barry  of  six  argent  and 
sable,  a  canton  ermine.  [Marshall.]  3.  Argent,  a  bend  sable 
between  three  pellets.  [Cotton.]  4.  Azure,  an  eagle  displayed 
argent,  armed  gules.  [Ridware.]  5.  Gules,  three  swords  erect, 
2  and  1,  argent,  pomels  and  hilts  or.  [Waldesheff.]  6.  Argent, 
three  falcons  close  gules.  [Fawcon.]  7.  Azure,  two  bars  argent. 
[Venables.] 

Crest. — A  cubit  arm  in  armour,  the  hand  appearing  clenched  within  the 
gauntlet,  all  proper. 

A  second  shield  of  the  same  arms  and  quarterings,  with  an  escutcheon 
of  pretence  :  Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Argent,  on  a  chevron  sable 
three  qualrefoils  or.  [Eyre.]  2  and  3.  Or,  three  horse-barnacles 
sable.  [Padley.] 


Alice,  daughter  of: 
Henry  Booth  of 
Arleston. 


:Nicholas  Fitzherberte  of= 
Norberye  in  the  Countic 
of  Derby. 


=Isabell,  da.  of 
....  Lndlowe, 
second  wife. 


John  Fitzherbert  of=pMargery,  the 
Etwall,  second  I  daughter  of 

Sonne,  the  Kinges     |  Rob  t  Bab- 
remembrancer  in         ington. 
the  Exchequer. 


Rob't  Fitzherbert: 
of  Uphall  in  the 
Com.  of  Herford. 


:Elizabeth, 
da.  of  Raulfe 
Joselyne  of 
Sabrigworth 
in  Essex. 


Jil^nlrtsi 


/////i  Soane.  IIeTttIdzcEni>ra.ver<£cZmcifon. 


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73 


Henry  Fitz- 

herbert, 

Knight. 


A| 


Joane,  mard  to       Hmnfrey=j=Dyonise,  da.  &  heire 


John  Porte 
of  Chester. 


Fitz- 
herbert. 


Eustace       Sr  John 
Fitz-  Porte, 

herberte.      Knio-hte. 


of  Hen.  Elveden. 


Sr  John  Fitz- 

herbert, 

Kniffht. 


:Anne          Anthony. 
Wayne-         — 
man.  Michaell. 


Henry  Fitzherbert. 


Raulf  Fitzherbert  of=j=Elizabeth,  daughter  and  sole  heire 


Norberye,  Esqr 
eldest  sonne. 


of  John  Marschall  of  Upton  in  the 
Com.  of  Leicester. 


Thomas  Fitz- 
herbert, 
Doctor  of  the 
Civill  Lawe. 


John  Fitzherberte=pBenet,  da.  of 


of  Norburye,  Esqr, 
eldest  sonne. 


Jo.  Brad- 
borne  of 
Hoffhe. 


Henry  Fitz- 
herbert of 
London, 
marchant, 
married. 


Nicholas  Fitzherbert=Dorathe,  da. 
of  Norbury,  Esq1-,  s.p.     of  Sr  Rafe 

Lonoford,  K*. 


Anne,  mar.       Elizab.,  mar.  to 
to  Jo.  Wells.     Sr  Phillip 
Draycotte. 


Dorothe,  da.  of  Sr=Sr  Anthony  Fitzherbert,=j=Maude,  eldest  da.  and 


Hen.  Willughby,      Kl,  Justice  of  ye  Com'on 
Knight.    1  wife.       Benche. 


coheire  of  Rich.  Cotton 
of  Rideware  in  Com. 
Stafford. 


Sr  Thomas  Fitz-=.  ...  da.  of 
herbert,  K* ;  Arthur 

nowe  livinge  Eyre  of 

1583.  Padley. 


John  Fitzherbert,  2  sonne,  mar. 
Catherin,  da.  of  ....  Restwood 
of  the  Yach  in  Com.  Buck. 


Maulde,  1= Thomas 
daughter.      Barlowe 

of 

in  Com. 
d  Derby. 


Jane,=Thomas  Eyre 
2  da.      of  Dunstonin 
the    Countye 
of  Derby. 


Anne,  3  da. 
Elizab.,  4  da. 
Mary,  5  da.     e 


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Thomas  Fitzherbert,  eldest    Nicholas,  2  sonne.     George,  4  sonne. 

sonne,   married    Elizabeth,  —  — 

da.  of  Jo.  Whestby  de  Com.     Frauncis,  3  sonne.     Anthony,  5  sonne. 

Lane.,  de  "West by  in  Com. 

Ebor.,   et  de  Molbroke  in 

Com.  Lane. 


Richard  Fitzherbert, 
3  son',  mar.  Mary, 
da.  of ...  .  "Westcott. 


Will'm  Fitzherbert,  4  son',  mar.  Elizab.,da.  of 
Humfrey  Swinnerton  of  Swinnerton  in  Com. 
Staf.,  &  one  of  the  heires. 


Will'm  Fitz- 
herbert, 
1  sonne. 


Nicholas, 
2  sonne. 


Thomas.        Anne,  mar.  to  Walter  Heven- 
—  ingham  of  Aston  and  Pipe  in 

Anthony.       the  Com.  of  Staf. 

Thomas  Fitzherbert. 


fflt&ttbztt  of  jfiMtmrg. 

(no 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Argent,  a  chief  vaire  or  and  gules,  over  all 
a  bendlet  sable.  [Fitzherbert.]  2.  Or,  on  a  bend  sable  three 
butterflies  argent.  [Somersall.]  3.  Barry  of  six  argent  and 
sable,  a  canton  ermine.  [Marshall.] 

Nicholaus  Fitzherb't  de  Norbury,=pAlicia,  filia  Henrici  Boothe 


sup'stes  an'o  30  H.  6. 


de  Aries  ton. 


Joh'es  Fitzherb't  de= 
Etwall,  s'd's  Alius, 
Eememorator  Regis 
H.  8  in  scaccario. 


:Margeria, 
filia 
Rob'ti 
Babins'ton. 


Rob'tus  Fitzherb't^. 
de  Uphall  in  Com 
Hertford. 


filia 


Joscelyn. 


Henrieus=f= 
Fitzherb't 


....  filia, 
nupta. .  .  . 
Copwoode. 


Johanna,  nupta 
Port. 


Barbara,  nupta 
Thomas  Cokayn, 

militi. 


Eustachius  Fitzherb't.=F        Johannes  Porte. 


filia,  nupta  Smith. 


filia,  nupta  Smithe.        b 


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75 


Humfridus=pDionisia,  filia  et  coheres  Henrici  Elveden. 
Fitzherb't.  (A  fesse  daucettee  between  three  bugle-liorus.) 


Johannes=Anna  Antonius. 

Fitzherb't,  Weyman.  — 

miles.  Michaell. 


Dorothea,  nupta  Joh'i 
Wingfeild  de  Lether- 
inffha'. 


Wilgefort,  nupta         Helena,  nupta  Will'mo        Gracea,  nupta  .  . 
Eob'to  Tansfeild.        Gevelite.  Robinson. 


Maria  Gevelott. 


Rad'us  Fitzherb't=pElizabetha,  filia  et  coheres  . 
de  Norbury.  de  Upton  in  Com.  Leicestr. 


Marshall 


Margeria,  ux. 
Nicolai  Pur- 
ferey. 


....  filia,  nupta  ....  Editha,  p'mo  nupta  Thomas 

Cumberford,  cui  Babington  de  Dethick, 

peperit  Humfridum  deinde  renupta  .... 

Cumberford.  Litster. 


Johannes  Fitzherb't=pBenedicta,  filia  et  hasres  Johannis 
de  Norbury.  Bradborne  del  Hoghe. 


Nicolaus  Fitzherb't  de  Norbury,     Elizabetha,  nupta  Phil-  Anne, 

duxit  Dorothea',  filia'  Rad'i  Long-     lippo  Draycott,  militi.  nupta 

ford,  militis ;  obi j  t  sine  exitu.  =j=  Johanni 

|—  Welles. 

Elizabetha,  nupta Foljambe. 


Anthonius  Fitzherb't,  miles,^=Matildis,  filia  et  una 


serviens  ad  legem. 


4  ha3redu'  Ricardi 
Cotton  de  Rideware. 


Henricus= 
Fitzherb't, 
2  filius. 


Elizabetha,  p'mo  nupta  ....  White,  deinde  renupta  ....  Fery. 


Antonius  White,  1.  Joh'es  White,  3.         Georgius  White, 

—  —  5  filius. 

c     Ricardus  White,  2.  Ric's  White,  4. 


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Thomas  Fitzherb't,     Johannes. 

miles,  duxifc filia'  — 

et  hasred'  Artlmri      Ric'us. 
Eyre  de  Padley.  — 

Will'm's. 


Dorothea,  Catherina,  Elizabetha, 

p'mo  nupta  nupta  nupta 

Rad'oLong-  Joh'i  Will'mo 

ford,  militi,  Sach-  Bassett. 

pos tea  Joh'i  verell.  =p 

Port,  militi.         =F 


Nicholaus  Longford.         Henricus  Sachverell.     Will'm's  Bassett. 


Arms. — Lozengy  argent  and  Gules. 

John  Fitz  Williams  of  Sprotsbrughe,  Knighte  ;: 
ancyent  from  the  Conqueste. 


Joim.=f  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Will'm  Clinton, 
Earle  of  Huntington. 


Sr  Will'm  Fitzwilliams,     Edmonde=pMaulde,  da.  of     Henry  Scroope= 


mar.  Maulde,  da.  of 
Raulf,  Lo.  Cromwell. 


Fitz- 

will'ms, 
2  sonne. 


Sr  John 
Hotham  of 
Storbrouffhe. 


of  Massam. 


Edmonde=pCatherin,  da.  of 
Fitzwill'ms.     Sr  John  Clifton. 


Elizabeth,  da.  &  heire,  mar.  to 
Thomas  Clarell  of  Aldwarke. 


S1'  Richard  FitzwiH'ms.=pElizabeth,  da.  and  heire. 


....  da.,  mar da.,  mar da.,  mar. 

to  John  to  Ralph  to  Will'm 

Skipwith.  Reresby.  Wentworth. 


Thomas  Reresby.     Thomas  Wentworth. 


....  da.,  Elizabeth, 

mar.  to  mar.  to 

....  Thomas 

Mir-  Wortley. 
feilde. 


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77 


Sr  Thomas— Lucy,  da.  to  John  Nevill,  M'quess  of  Montacute ; 
Fitzwilliams.     after  to  Anthony  Browne. 


Thomas*= Agnes  Paken-=SrWiH'ni    Will'm  Fitz-  Elizabeth,!  mar. 

Fitz-  ham.  Sydney.       will'm,  Earle  to  Sir  Will'm 

will'ms.  of  South-  Gascoigne. 

ampton. 


dfoljam&e  of  Crojrtrnt 


Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.   Sable,  a  bend  behueen  six  escallops  or. 

2.  Argent,  a   bend  azure  charged  with  five  crosses-crosslet  or. 

3.  Argent,  a  chevron  between  three  escallops  gules  ;  in  the  centre  a 
crescent  gules  for  difference.  The  whole  within  a  border  engrailed 
gules. 

Crest. — A  leg  couped  at  the  thigh,  quarterly  or  and  sable,  spurred  gold, 
charged  in  chief  ivith  a  fesse  indented  gules,  a  crescent  of  the  last 
for  difference. 

Sr  Godfreye  Fouljambe  of  Walton=f=Catherin,  the  da.  of  John 
in  the  Comt'  of  Derby,  K*.  Leeke  of  Sutton,  Esq1-. 


Sr  James  Foul- 
jambe of  Wal- 
ton, Knighte. 


Sr  Godfrey 
Fouljambe 
of  Walton, 
Knight;  nowe 
livinsre  1583. 


Alice,$ 
the  da.  of 
Thomas 
Fitz- 
will'm 
of  Aid- 
war  ke. 


Godfrey= 
Foul- 
jambe of 
Crox- 
den,  and 
of  Ald- 
warke 
by  his 
wife. 

X 
A  \ 


:Margaret,| 
an  other 
da.  and 
coheire  of 
Tho.  Fitz- 
will'm  of 
Aldwarke. 


George=i=Dorothe, 


Foul- 
jambe 
of  Bal- 
borough 
in  Com. 
Derby, 
3  sonne. 


u 


da.  of 
....  Bar- 
lowe  of 
Barlowe 
in  Com. 
Derby. 


*  This  Thomas  Fitzwilliam  was  slain  at  Flodden  in  1513.  He  died  seised  {inter 
alia)  of  the  manor  of  Thorpe-Constantine  in  Staffordshire,  and  "William  his  son, 
then  aged  four,  was  found  by  inquisition  to  be  his  heir.  William  died  an  infant  in 
7  Henry  VIII.  (1515),  whereupon  his  two  sisters,  Alice,  the  wife  of  James  Foljambe, 
and  Margaret,  the  wife  of  Godfrey  Foljambe  (brother  of  James),  were  found  to  be 
his  next  heirs,  and  of  the  respective  ages  of  fourteen  and  twelve.  See  Shaw,  i.,  405, 
and  "  Collectanea  Topographica  et  Genealogica,"  i.,  355  ;  ii.,  68,  etc. 

f  Should  be  Margaret. 

\  See  footnote  (*)  above. 


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I  r 

Godfrey  Foul-=Joane, 

jambe,*  sonne  da.  of 

naturall  of  George 

Godfrey  and  Foul- 

his  beire  ;  jambe 

nowe  Lord  of  of  Bal- 

Croxden  and  borogb. 
of  Aldwarke. 
Livinge  in 
Com.  Staff. 
1583. 


Henry  Foul- 

Godfrey  Foul- 

Trothe, 

jambe,  eldest 

jambe,  mar. 

second 

son,  mar.  Mary, 

Em  me,  daugh- 

da. 

widowe  of 

ter  of  ...  . 

— 

Henry  Babing- 

Tunsted  of 

Catherin, 

ton  of  Detliike, 

Tunsted  in  the 

3  daugh- 

sister to  Jobn, 

Countye  of 

ter. 

Lo.  Darcy,  that 

Derbye. 

nowe  liveth 

1583. 

Godfrey  Foljambe. 


tfoMcv  of  ML  CljomaS,  |3rnMor&,  etc 

Arms.j — Azure,  on  a   chevron  engrailed  between   three   lions  passant 

guar dan t  or  as  many  crosses  moline  sable. 
[In  Dugdale's  MS.  in  Coll.  Arm.,  and  also  in  Harl.  MS.  6128,  a  Crest 

is  given,  viz.  A  cubit  arm,  holding  cm  open  book  of  music.'] 

Will'm  Fowler4=j= 


Richarde  Fowler, 
Chauncellor  of 
the  Dutchie. 


1  |  2  3 

Alice. = Thomas  Fowler  §  of=Edyth.= Margery, 
....   Esq1-  for   the 
bodye     to      Kinge 
Edward  the  fourth. 


*  His  mother  was  named  Brownlow,  and  at  one  period  he  was  known  as  "  Fol- 
jambe alias  Brownlow."  See  an  elaborate  pedigree  of  Foljambe  in  "  Coll.  Top.  et 
Gen.,"  vols.  i.  and  ii. 

f  These  arms  were  probably  granted  since  1528,  for  in  that  year  died  Sir  Richard 
Fowler  of  Rycote,  son  and  heir  of  Richard  Fowler,  the  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of 
Lancaster,  and  the  arms  on  his  monument  in  Trinity  Church,  London,  were  Argent, 
three  wolf's  heads  erased  gules,  within  a  bordure  azure  charged  with  castles,  or 
chess-rooks,  or  (being  the  coat  of  Rycote,  alias  Vis-de-lou,  of  Rycote),  quartering 
Barton,  ~Englejield,  and  Gernon.  The  same  coat,  with  a  crescent  for  difference,  is  on 
the  monumental  brass  of  Sir  Richard's  uncle,  Thomas  Fowler,  in  the  chapel  of  Christ's 
College,  Cambridge. 

J  William  Fowler  married  Cecilia,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Nicholas  Englefield 
by  Johanna  Rycote,  his  wife,  heiress  of  the  family  and  estate  of  Rycote. 

§  Thomas  Fowler's  first  wife  is  called  Mary  or  Margery,  daughter  of  Edward 
Lee  or  Lester,  or  of  ...  .  Coleville.  His  second  wife  was  Alice,  widow  of  John 
Hulcote  of  Hulcote,  Northamptonshire,  and  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Houghton 
of  Ellesborou^h,  Bucks.  His  third  wife,  who  survived  him,  was  Edith  Dynham, 
sister  (it  is  presumed)  of  John,  Lord  Dynham,  and  her  arms  (Dynham  quartering 
Arches)  are  on  the  brass  above  named.  He  appears  to  have  had  three  sons,  Thomas, 
Edward,  and  William. 


Jtoteles, 


ffarry  Soane.  Eentldit  Engraver ^a  London  . 


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79 


Edward  Fowler,*  a  yonger  sonne  of  Thomas,  and1 
dwelte  at  Twickenham  neare  Eichmond. 


Roger  Fowler  of  Bromhill^Sibjll  Leghe,  the  sister  to 
in  Norfolke.  Rowlande,  Bishop  of 

Coventry  and  Leichfeilde. 


A  daughter, 
sans  yssue. 


Rollande  Fowler  of  Brom-=p.  .  .  .f  da.  of  ...  .  Bradsha  of  Presten 
hill  in  Norf.  in  Wales,  in  Com.  Radnore. 


George  Fowler^=.  .  .  .J  da.  of  ...  .  J\Iontforde      Bryan 
of  Bromhill.         of  Norf.  Fowler. 


Rowlande,  eldeste  sonne. 


William  Fowler 
of  Herneage 
Grange  in  Com. 
Salop,  cler. 
assisor™  ibi. 


:Mary,  da.  of  ...  . 
Blithe,  Doctor  in 
Phisicke,  sister  to 
Mrs  Osborne. 


James  Fowler 
of  Pen  for  de 
in  Com.  Staff., 
4  sonne. 


OJargaret,§  da. 
of  ... .  Moreton 
of  Wilhighton 
in  Com.  Staf- 
forde. 


Richarde, 
eldeste. 


2.  Peter.         1.  Margaret. 

3.  Thomas,     2.  Alice. 
3  sonne.  — 

3.  Mary. 


Walter,       2       3 
eldeste. 


Bryan  Fowler ||  of  Sfc  Thomas1 
nere  Staff. ;  livinge  1583. 

A 


:Jane,  da.  of  John  Hanmer  of  Bettesfeld 
in  Com.  Flinte,  and  his  soale  heire. 


*  This  Edward  is  probably  not  joined  on  to  the  former  pedigree  because  it  was 
doubtful  whether  he  was  son  of  Thomas  Fowler  the  younger  ;  for  in  many  of  the 
pedigrees  he  is  so  placed,  and  then  an  erasure  has  been  made,  leaving  him  son  of 
Thomas  the  elder.  The  latter  is  doubtless  correct,  for  Thomas  the  younger  appears 
to  have  had  female  issue  only,  one  of  whom,  Margery,  is  stated  to  have  married 
William  Symons  of  "  Bodill "  in  Cornwall.  In  one  pedigree  the  wife  of  Edward 
Eowler  is  called  Margaret  Colwich,  and  a  family  of  that  name  lived  at  Richmond 
and  Isleworth.  See  their  pedigree  in  "The  Visitation  of  Yorkshire,  1563,"  edited 
by  Mr.  Norcliffe  for  the  Harleian  Society,  p.  63.     ■ 

f  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Bradshaw  of  Presteigne. 

t  Bridget,  daughter  of  Osbert  Mundeford  of  Feltwell. 

§  Should  be  Catherine,  daughter  of  Robert  Moreton  of  Haughton,  co.  Salop. 

||  Buried  with  his  wife  in  the  chancel  of  Baswich  Church,  where  their  (mutilated) 
tomb  still  remains. 


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Bryan,  2  sonne. 
John,  3  sonne. 


Margaret,  eldest, 
mar.  to  Edward 
Lane  de  Com. 
Staff. 


Anne,  mar.  to 
Will'm  Mont- 
ford  of  Kinges- 
lmrst  in  Com. 
Warw. 


Dorothe,  mar, 
to  Sampson 
Walker  of 
Weston  in 
Com.  Staff. 


Frauncis,  mar.  Cassandra,  mar.  Jane  mar.  to  Isabell. 

to  Thomas  to  John  Stone  Eicharde  — 

Cauncefeilde  of  of  Walsall  in  Daye.  Martha.* 

Lancasheire.  Com.  Staff. 


Walter  Fowler,  eldest  sonne,  mar.  Mary,  da.  of=p 
Half  Sheldon  of  Beeley  in  Com.  Wigorn. 


Bryan,  eldeste,  setat.  3,  an0  1583.         Edmond,  2  sonne.        Anne. 

Walter  Fowler. 

\*  I  am  indebted  to  W.  R  Carter,  Esq.,  Barrister-at-Law,  for  the  notes  to 
this  pedigree. 


<§tffar&  of  CMltngton, 

Arms. — Azure,  three  stirrups  with  leathers  or. 

Crest. — A  panther's  head  couped  affrontee  or,  spotted  gules  and  azure, 
flames  issuant  from  the  mouth  proper. 


Thomas  Gyffard  of  Chillintom 
in  Com.  Staff.,  Esqr. 


rJoyce,  da.  of  ...  . 
Robert]  Frauncis. 


[Sir 


Rob'te  Giffarde  of: 
Chillinton,  Esq1'. 
a 


-Cassandra,  f  da.  of  . 
Humfreston. 


*  The  second  wife  of  Thomas  Skrimshire  of  Aquilate. 

t  The  Hathertou  and  other  MSS.  call  this  lady  "  Cassandra,  da.  of  John 
Knightley  of  Fawsley;"  but  the  following  copy  of  an  inscription  formerly  in 
Brewood  Church  (printed  in  the  late  Mr.  Hicks-Smith's  "  Brewood  ")  is  decisive — 
"  Hie  jacet  Domina  Cassandra,  filia  Thomae  Humferston,  Armigeri,  et  uxor  Roberti 


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81 


Jane  da.  of  .  . 
Horde ;  firste 
wife. 


=j=Sr  John  Giffarde= Elizabeth,  da.  of  . 
of  Chillinton,  Gresley;  seconde 

Knight.  wife. 


Cassandra,  mar.  to 
Humfrey  Swiuer- 
ton. 


Dorothe,  first  mar.  to  Jolm 
Congreve,  after  to  Frauncis 
Sherley. 


Frauncis,*  mar, 
to  Sr  John 
Talbott. 


Dorothe,  da.  and  coheire=f=S''  Thomas  Giffard=j=Ursula,  da.  of 


of  S1'  John  Montgomery, 
Knis'ht ;  first  wife. 


of  Chillinton, 
Kniffhte. 


Throckmorton 
seconde  wife. 


....  mar.  to  Sr  John=j= 
Porte,  Knighte. 


John  Gifforde  of= 
Chillinton,  Esqr. 


....  wife  to  Thomas 
Gerarde. 


....  wife  to  George 
Hastinges. 


6fffart»  of  €Irinutgtcm,+ 

(no 

Crest. — "  Une  teste  de  Panthaire  d'or,  heurtee,  tortee,  la  langue  de 
gueules,  assise  sur  une  torse  d'argent  et  de  asure.  Donne  et 
assigne  au  John  Gyfford  de  Chelyngton  en  la  Counte  de  Stafford 
Escuyer,  par  Thomas  Wryothesley  Jarretihe  et  John  Yonge 
Norrey,  Roys  d'Armes,  le  28  jour  de  May,  l'an  de  Grace  1513, 
et  du  reigne  le  Roy  Henry  Chrytiesme,  cinquiesme." 

Giffard,  Armigeri,  ac  domiui  de  Chillington,  ac  postea  uxor  Johannis  Brodoke, 
Armigeri,  quae  Cassandra  obiit  ....  die  mensis  Januarii  Anno  Dom.  1537,  cujns 
aninia  propitietur  Deus."  Notwithstanding  this,  the  great  pedigree  of  Knightley 
printed  in  Dr.  Howard's  "  Miscellanea,"  i.,  97,  gives  to  John  Knightley  of  Fawsley 
a  daughter  "Cassandra  uxor  Johauni  Langtree,  Arinigero;  renupta  Johanni  Giffard 
de  Chillington  in  Com.  Staff." 

*  "  Shee  was  b}r  the  dau.  of  Greseley."     (Hatherton  MS.) 

f  This  second  pedigree  of  Giffard  has  been  inserted  in  the  Stukeley  MS.  by  Mr. 
Thorpe  from  the  presumed  original  in  the  library  of  Queen's  College,  Oxford.  It 
should  be  mentioned,  however,  that  the  last-named  MS.  contains  both  pedigrees. 
It  is  not  improbable  that  John  Gill'ard  failed  to  appear  in  person  at  the  place  and  day 
named  by  Glover  lor  holding  his  court  for  the  hundred  of  Cudleston,  and  that,  in 
his  absence,  Glover,  unwilling  to  omit  all  notice  of  so  influential  a  family,  entered  so 
much  of  the  pedigree  as  he  could  discover  from — it  may  be — the  Squire's  steward  or 

G 


82 


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Hoord  port  ar., 
sur  le  chef  d'or, 
ling  corbeau  sable. 


Johanna,*  uxor=f= Johannes  Giffard,=f=Elizabetha, 


p'ma,  filia 
Hoorde,      qure 
obijt  8  die  De- 
cembris,  1491. 


miles,  filius 
Roberti,  t'peE.4, 
\l.  3,  H.  7,et  anno 
3  H.  8.     Obijt 
1556. 


uxor  s'c'da, 

filia 

Greseley. 


Cassandra,  nnpta  Dorothea,  p'mo  nupta  Francisca,  nupta  Joh'i 

Humfi'ido  Swyn-  Johanni       Congreve,  Talbot  de  Grafton   in 

nerton  de  Swyn-  postea  renupta  Fran-  Com.  Wigorn,  militi. 

nerton.  cisco  Shirley.  =p 


Johannes  Talbot,  duxit  filiam 
Will'mi  Petre,  militis. 


Jana,    nupta    Georgio    Bowes    de 
Stretham  in  Ep'atu  Dunelm,  militi. 


Dorothea,  uxor  prima,: 
filia  et  cohasres  Johan- 
nis  Montgomery, 
militis. 


-Thomas  Giffard  de: 
Chillinton,  miles, 
obijt  anno  1560, 
2  reginse  Eliza- 
beths. 


^Ursula,  filia  Roberti  Throk- 
morton  de  Caughton  in 
Com.  War.,  militis  ;  quae 
obijt  15  .  . 


1 

Elizabetha,  hasres 

1 
Edwardus  Giffard, 

1 
Humfridus, 

1 

Robertus, 

maternaB 

hasredi- 

2 

filius,      duxit 

3  filius,  duxit 

4  filius. 

tatis ;   nupta  Jo- 

Franciscam, filiam 

Alionoram, 

hanni  Port,  militi. 

.  .  . 

.   Skerne   de 

filiam  .... 

London. 

Warde. 

1 

,  uxor 

T 

^T 

1 

Eliza- 

1   1 
Dorothea 

1     1 
Johannes. 

1            1    1 
Fran-     Rober- 

T      1 

Ursula,  3. 

betha, 

Georgij 

Has- 

— 

cisca.      tus,   1. 

uxor 

tinges,  militis. 

Thomas,  2. 

— 

Thomae 

— 

Edwar- 

Gerard, 

Margareta,  uxor 

dus,  2. 

militis. 

Thorns 

Stan- 

hop,  militis. 

A 

attorney,  and  from  previous  entries  in  the  College  books.  John  Giffard  and  his 
brother  Humphrey  were  both  duly  summoned,  as  will  be  seen  on  reference  to  the 
"  Nomina  Nobilium "  (ante,  p.  4),  and  the  absence  from  that  list  of  the  word 
appeared  or  entred  seems  to  support  my  view.  However  it  may  be,  we  have  in  the 
pedigree  before  us  ample  evidence  of  the  fact  that  John  Giffard  did  sometime  appear 
and  "  do  right  to  posterity  "  by  recording  his  armorial  honours  and — a  portion  of — his 
ancient  pedigree. 

*  It  appears  from  a  pedigree  of  Uoord  in  the  "Topographer  and  Genealogist" 
(i.,  34)  that  she  was  one  of  the  daughters  of  Thomas  Hoord  of  Bridgnorth  (who  died 
11  June,  1488)  by  Joyce,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Sir  John  Stapleton  of  Staple- 
ton,  Knt. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Dorothea,  rmpta  Gilberto 
Astley  de  Patesbull  in 
Com.  Staff.,  Ar. 

2.  Isabella,  nupta  Fran- 
cisco Bydulf  de  Bydulf 
in  Com.  Staff.,  Ar. 


3.  Cassandra,  nupta 
Erasmo  Wolfesley 
de  Wolfesley  bridge 
in  Com.  Staff. 

4.  Elizabetba,  4  filia. 


Anna,  nupta 
Georgio  Smith 
de  Wotton  in 
Com.  Warr.,  et 
de  Ashby  in 
Com.  Leyc. 


Johannes  Giffard  de  Chillinton  in=j=Jocosa,   filia   Jacobi 


Com.      Staff.,     Armiger,      modo 
superstes  in  anno  1583. 


Leveson  de  Lilleshall 
in  Com.  Salop,  Ar. 


Walterus  Giffard,  p'mo-  Ricardus,  2  filins.  Georgius,  6  filius. 
genitus,    duxit    Philip-                    —  — 

parmfiliametcohoeredem  Thomas,  3  filius.  Geraldus,  7  filius. 
Henrici  White  de  South-                    —  — 

warnburgh      in      Com.  Gilbertus,  4  filius.  Edwardus,  8  filius. 
Hampt.,  Ar.                                      — 

=j=  Egidius,  5  filius. 


Petrus  Giffard,  p'mogenitus, 
aetatis  2  annor',  1583. 


Johannes,  s'c'd's  filius. 


Maria,  p'ma  filia, 
nupta  Ricardo 
Brooke  de  Lap- 
ley  in  Com.  Staff. 


Cassandra,    2   filia,  Jana  et  Ursula,  Francisca, 

nupta  Thomas,  filio  3    et    4    filia?,  5  filia. 

et   haeredi    Henrici  gemellre,      uno  — 

Cassy  de  Wightfeld  partu  enixaa.  Dorothea, 

in  Com.  Glouc.  6  filia. 


Franciscus  Cassy. 
Cassy  port  b.,  ung  chev'ron  entre  3  (griffin's  heads  erased)  or. 


John  Giffard. 


©rant  of  a  StantrarU  to  Sir  Sofjn  etffartJ,  itttt 

[This  accompanies  the  second  Pedigree  of  Giffard  in  "  the  original 
Glover  "  (so  styled  by  Thorpe),  and  has  been  copied  into  the  Stukeley 
MS.     Through  the  courtesy  of  Somerset  Herald  I  am  enabled  here  to 

G  2 


84  THE   VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

annex  a  drawing  of  the  Standard*  from  a  contemporary  MS.  in  the 
College  of  Arms.  This  MS.  contains  beautifully  executed  drawings  of 
the  Standards  borne  in  the  field  by  Peers  and  Knights  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  VIII.,  and  has  been  fully  described  in  Bentley's  "  Excerpta 
Hisfcorica."  Though  I  lay  myself  open  to  the  charge  of  '  using  vain 
repetitions,'  I  venture  to  append  the  following  description  of  the 
Standard  from  that  Work  (p.  331) : — "  Four  stripes  or  and  azure,  A  on 
a  wreath  argent  and  sable,  a  demi-archer,  looking  towards  the  sinister, 
couped  at  the  knees,  in  armour  proper  ;  from  his  middle  a  short  coat 
paly  argent  and  gules,  at  his  left  side  a  sword,  and  at  his  right  a  quiver 
of  arrows  or,  in  his  hands  a  bow  and  arrow  drawn  to  the  head  of  the 
last ;  between  in  the  dexter  chief  and  sinister  base,  two  representations 
of  the  following  Crest,  viz.,  On  a  wreath  argent  and  azure,  a  leopard's 
head  guardant  erasedf  or,  spotted  azure  and  gules,  vomiting  flames  of 
the  last.  In  B  two,  and  in  C  three  leopard's  heads  as  in  A.  Motto. — 
'  Preigns  alaine  tires  fort.'  "] 

&  tOUS  JJVCSntS  Ct  a  aUbrmr,  &C.  Thomas  Wryothesley, 
Jarretiere,  et  Thomas  Benold,  Clarencieulx,  Roys  des  Amies,  Saint. 
Equite  veult,  &c.  comme  ainsy  soit  que  Messire  John  Gyfford  de  Chel- 
yngton  en  la  counte  de  Stafforde  par  deca  la  Riviere  de  Trent,  Chevalier, 
soyt  descendu  de  noble  fignee,  et  aussi  longuement  ait  contynue  en 
noblesse  portant  armes  ;  neantmoins  icel  luy  incertain  en  quelle  maniere 
ses  predecesseurs  portoient  leurs  devises  et  cognoyssanccs  en  leurs 
estandartz  et  guydhomes,  non  voulant  prejudicier  a  nulluy,  a  nous 
lesditz  Roys  d'Armes  a  requiz  de  luy  ordonner,  deviser,  et  assignor  ung 
estandart  convenable.  Et  pour  ce  nous,  consyderans  sa  requeste  estre 
juste  et  raisonable,  &c,  nous  avons  devise,  ordonne,  et  assigne  audit 
Messire  John  Gyfford,  pour  luy  ensemble  et  pour  la  posterite  dudit 
Messire  John,  avecques  leurs  differences,  l'estandart  en  la  maniere 
qui  s'ensuit ;  c'est  a  savoir,  a  ung  demy  Archier  d'home  d'armes,  arnie 
d'asur,  tirant  son  arc,  la  flesche,  la  corde  de  Tare,  la  trouse  des  flesches, 
le  pomeau  et  la  croix  de  son  espee,  d'or  ;  son  sayon  de  gueules  et 
d'argent  pale  de  six  pieces,  assis  sur  une  torse  d'argent  et  de  sable  ;  si 
come  la  picture  en  la  marge  cydevant  le  demonstre.  A  avoir  et  tenir,  &c. 
Donne  a,  Londres  le  12  jour  de  Juillet  l'an  de  n're  Sr  Jesu  Christ  1523, 
et  l'an  du  regne  le  Roy  Henry  Chrystiesme  15. 


*  From  tho  same  source  I  have  obtained  a  tracing  of  another  Giffard  Standard, 
also  here  represented. 

t  In  the  Visitation  the  panther's  head  is  represented  couped,  and  it  is  so  given 
in  Dugdale's  Visitation,  1663.  At  this  last-named  Visitation  two  crests  are  recorded, 
first  the  archer,  second  the  panther's  head, — the  former  apparently  taking  aim  at 
the  latter.  Of  course  there  is  a  "legend  "attached  to  these  crests,  which  the  curious 
may  read  in  Burke's  "  Anecdotes  of  the  Aristocracy." 


t-Qjyi  -wn.      C£fyjVu$>  Sc  s£ejwo^  *u  <\>m)  ,^ffo-^ 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


85 


(Bridles  of  BraMoto  ant»  Cotton, 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1   and  4.    Vaire  ermine  and  gules.    [Gresley.] 
2  and  3.  Sable,  a  lion  rampant  argent,  collared  gules.    [Was- 

TENEYS.] 

Crest. — A  lion  statant  ermine,  collared  gules.     (A  second  crest  is  given 
in  some  MSS.,  viz.,  A  lion's  head  coujped  argent,  collared  gules.) 

Sr  John  Greisley,  sonne=pMargery,  da.  of 
of  Sr  Thorn.  Sr  Tho.  Clarell. 


8r  John  Gresley,=pAnne,  daughter  of  Sr  Thomas 


Knight. 


Stanley  of  Elford. 


Sr  Thomas  Gresley,=pAnne,  daughter  of  Sr  Thomas 


Knight. 


Ferrers  of  Tamworth. 


Sr  Wyll'm=Benet,  da.  of  Sr  Hen.  Vernon 
Gresley,        of  Hadon,  K.,  in  the  Peke ; 

Knight.        sans  yssue. 


I  I  ! 

2.  John,  a     4.  Robert, 
preist.  — 

5.  James. 


Marga.,  da.  of  John  Mnlsho  of=j=Sr    George=pCatherine,   d.   of 
Fenton  in  Northamp'sh.,  &x°.     Gresley,  K.     Edw.  Lo.  Dudley. 


Catherin, 
mara  to 
Edw.  Win- 
ter de  Com. 
Leicest. 


Sr  Wyll'm  Greisley ,= 
Knight,  Lo.  of  Castle 
Gresley,  &  of  Colton. 


:Catherin, 
da.  of 
Sr  Edw. 
Aston, 
Knight. 


Edw.,  Elizabeth, 

2  sonne.  mard  to 
—  Charles 

Thomas,  Somersett. 

3  sonne. 


Tho.  Gresley=j=Catherin,   da.   of     Steven, 


of  Draklowe 
in  Com. 
Derby. 


Jane,     Elizabeth,  3  da., 
1  da.     sans  yssue. 


Sr  Tho.  Walsing-  2  sonne 

ham  of  Skadbury  — 

in  Com.  Kent,  K.,  Hastinges,    Mar.,    Grace,  4  da 

superstes  1583.  3  sonne.         2  da. 


Henry  Gresley, 
eldest  sonne, 
aitat.  4  annor' 
1583. 


George  Gresley, 

2  sonne. 

John  Gresley, 

3  sonne. 


Will'm  Katherin,  1  da. 
Gresley,  — 

fourth  Katherin  (sic), 

sonne.  2  da. 

Tho.  Gresley. 


86  THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

EX  VALDE  VETERI  SCRIPTO   IN  PARGAMENO. 

<Rc&  sont  partes  tfauncrstrcs  ifttonsr  Stomas  tit  ©resclc}?. 

Mons1'  Will'm  fitz  de  Nigell  de  Greseley. 

Mons1'  Rob't  de  Greseley  et  sa  femme  Basille. 

Monsr  Will'm  de  Greseley  et  Basille  sa  femme. 

Mons1'  Geffrey  de  Greseley  et  Marjory  sa  femme,  fille  a  Matild.  Somer- 

ville  dame  de  Cosington,  et  Julian  sa  autre  femme  de  Leic. 
Monsr  Will'm  de  Greseley  et  Elizabeth  sa  femme,  fille  a  John  Bakepuz 

S1'  de  Barton  Bakepuz. 
Monsr  Geffrey  de  Greseley  et  Agnes  sa  femme. 
Monsr  Peris  (sic)  de  Greseley  et  Johane  sa  femme,  fille  a  Monsr  Rob't 

de  Stafford  Sr  de  Eginton  et  Moginton,  Com.  Derby. 
Monsr  Geffrey  de  Greseley  et  Margarite  sa  fem'e,  fille  a  John  Gernon 

S1'  de  Laminton  pres  Oxenford. 
11)  E.  3.     Mons1'  John  de  Greseley  et  Alice  sa  fem'e,  fille  a  Mons1'  Roger 

de  Swiimerton. 
Mons1'  Nichole  de  Greseley  et  Thomasine  sa  fem'e,  fille  et  heire  a,  Monsr 

Thomas  Gastneys  Sr  de  Colton. 
Monsr  Thomas  de  Greisley  et  Margerite  sa  fem'e,  fille  a  Mons1'  Thomas 

Walse  Sr  d'Onlep  en  co.  Leic. 

Ccs  font  parties  tratmccstcrs  flame  &Jjomasme  tit  Sastntgs. 

Mons1'  Hardolph  Gastneys  et  Ravenild  et  Betreh  ses  deux  fem'es. 

Monsr  Rob't  Gastneys  et  sa  fem'e. 

Monsr  Phillip  Gastneys  et  sa  fem'e  Amphelisia. 

Mons1'  Will'm  Gastneys  et  Margaret  sa  femme. 

Monsr  Will'm  Gastneys  et  sa  femme. 

Monsr  Will'm  Gastneys  et  Coustaunce  sa  fem'e. 

Monsr  John  Gastneys  et  Isabelle  sa  fem'e,  fille  a  Mons1'  German  Hay  de 

Com.  de  Werw.  (?) 
Monsr  Will'm  Gastneys  ct  Johanne  sa  femme,  fille  a  Mons1'  John  Brett 

de  Norff. 
Mons1'  Thomas  Gastneys  et  Johanne  sa  femme,  fille  a  John  Toly  de 

Wymondham. 
Dame  Thomasine,  fille  et  lucres  a  diet'  Mons1' Thomas  Gastneys,  et  Dame 

de  Colton  mariee  a  Mons1'  Nioh'  do  Gi'eseley. 


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87 


(greMeforum  <#temma  attttqut&tmtmu 

Nigillus  pater  istius  Will',  t'pe  Will'  Conquestoris,  tenuit  maneria 
de  Thorp,  Kingesley,  et  Morton,  in  Com.  Stafford,  ut  aparuit  in  libro 
vocato  Domesday,  composito  an0  20  regni  regis  Will,  prsedic.  et  in 
Scacario  D'me  Reginae  adhuc  sum'a  cura  reposito. 

Will'm's  filius  Nigelli  de  Greiseley  qui  fundavit 
monasteriu'  de  Greseley  in  Com.  Derby,  in 
honorem  S'c'i  Georgii ;  uxor  ejus  Elena. 


Henricus  de  Greseley, 
t'pe  Will'm's  Com.  de 
Ferrariis. 


Rob'tus  de  Greseley,=pBasilia. 
miles,  t'pe  W.  Com. 
de  Ferr'. 


Will'm's  de  Greseley,  miles.=f=Basilia. 


Margeria,  filia  Matildis  de  Somerville,=j=Galfridus  de= Juliana,  uxor 
D'na  de  Cosington.  J  Greseley,  s'c'da,  de  Com. 

Port  b.,  three  (eagles  displayed),  seme     miles  D'n's       Leycestr. 
(of  cross-crosslets)  or.  de  Mortona. 


Will'm's  de  Greseley,=pElizabetha,  filia  Joh'is  Bakepuze,  D'ni  de  Barton. 


miles. 


Bakepuze  port  g.,  2  barres  arg.,  3  (horse-shoes)  or 
en  le  chef. 


Galfridus  de  Greseley,  miles.=p Agnes. 


Petrus  de  Greseley  ,=pJohanna,  filia  D'ni  Rob'ti  Stafford,  D'ni  de  Egin- 


miles. 


ton  et  Meginton  in  Com.  Derby. 

Port  or,  cheveron  g.  entre  3  (martlets)  sa, 


Galfridus  de  Greseley ,=pMargareta,  uxor  ejus,  filia  Joh'is  Gernon,  militis, 


Ar« 


D'ni  de  Lanington  juxta  Oxoniam. 
Port  g.,  3  pales  und6  argeut. 


Johanna,  uxor  s'c' da, = Johannes  de=f= Alicia,  filia  Rogeri  S  winner  ton, 


sup.  simul  cum  Greseley, 

marito  an'o  50  Ed.  3.     miles. 


militis,  D'ni  de  Swinnerton. 


sable. 


Port  ar.,  un  croix  pate  forme  flore 


88  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,   A.D.    1583. 


Hardolfus  Gastneys,  miles,  duas  accepit  uxores 
Ravenhildani  et  Bertriciain. 


Robertus  Gastneys,  miles  vocatus  Eob'ti  filius  Hardulfi. 


Phili]3pus  de  Gastueis,*  miles.^pMargareta. 


Will'm's  Gastneys,  miles.= 


Will'm's  Gastneys,  iniles.=pConstancia. 


Joh'es  Gastneys,=plsabella,  filia  German'i  Hay  de  Acton  in  Com.  Ebor, 


miles. 


Port  or,  en  le  chef  g.  2  (estoiles)  arg. 


Will'm's  Gastneys,  miles,  et  Johanna  uxor        Joh'es,  rector  Eccl'ae 

ejus  filia  d'ni  Joh'is  Brett  de  Com.  Norff.  de  Cranwis,  superstes 

Port  ar.,  bend  g.  billete  ar.  10  Ed.  3. 


Thomas  Gastneys,  miles,  et  Johanna  uxor  ejus,  filia=f= 
Johannis  Toly  de  Wimondham,  superstes  10  Ed.  3. 


*  This  does  not  agree  with  the  parchment  roll,  and  is  probably  an  error  of  the 
copyist,  for  Lord  llatherton's  MS.  gives  the  descent  thus : — 

Robertus.^ 
I 


Philippus  de  Gastneys,  miles.-r-Amphelisia,  fil.  et  coh.  Eob'ti  Morley,  niilitis. 

I 
Will'mus  G.,  niiles.-pMargareta. 

I 
Will'mus  G.,  miles  =p.  .  .  . 

I 

I 
Will'mus  G.,  miles.-r-Constancia. 

4> 


<&n$Uy. 


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89 


Nicholaus=f=Thomasina,  filia  efc  hasres     Will'm's,      Joh'es,       Thomas, 


de  Grese- 
ley, miles. 


Thomas  Gastneys,  militis,    siue  p'le.      sine  sine  p'le. 

D'ni  de   Colton  in  Com.  p'le. 

de  Staff. 


Thomas  de  Greseley,=pMargareta,  filia  Thomse  Walsch,  militis,  D'ni 


miles,  superstes   an0 
6  H.  4. 


Donlep  in  Com.  Leic. 

Port  g.,  2  gemelles  un  baston  en  bend  argent. 


Joh'es  de  Gresley,=pMargeria,  filia  Thomas  Clarell,  militis, 
miles.  (Port  g.,  6  martlets  ar.)  genita  ex  Matilda, 

filia  Nicholai  Montgomery,  militis. 


Joh'es  de  Greseley,=pAnna,  filia  Thomas  Stanley  de  Elford, 
miles.  militis,  in  Com.  Staff. 


....  filia, 
nupta 
Simoni 
Montfort 
de  Colsell. 


Thomas  de=f=Anna,  filia  Thomas 


Greseley, 
miles. 


Ferrers  de  Tam- 
worth,  militis,  in 
Com.  Warr. 


....  filia, 
nupta 
Joh.  Eger- 
ton  de 
Wrinehill. 


....  filia, 
nupta 
Thomas 
Darrell  de 
Scoteney. 


Will'm's  Greseley, 
miles,  duxit  Bene- 
dictam  filiam  Hen. 
Vernon  de  Had- 
don  in  Com.Derb., 
militis,  et  obijt 
sineexitulegithna. 


Georgius  de  Grese- 
ley, miles,  duxit 
primam  uxorem 
Margaretam  filiam 
Joh'is  Mulschoe  de 
Fendon  in  Com. 
Northamp. 


-Catherina,  Joh'es,  cleri- 

uxor  secunda,      cus,  s.p. 
filia    Edwardi  — 

D'ni    Dudley,     Rob'tus, 
militis  Gar-        4  filius. 
terii.  — 

Jacobus, 
5  filius. 


Will'm's  de=pCatherin,  filia 


Greseley, 
miles,  D'n's 
de  Castro 
Greseley  et 
de  Colton. 


Eclw.    Aston, 
militis,  de 
Ticksall  in 
Com.  Staff. 


Catherina, 
nupta 
Edwardo 
Winter  de 
Com.  Leic. 


Edwardus, 

2  filius. 

Thomas, 

3  filius. 


Elizabetha, 
nupta 
Carolo  de 
Somersett. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Thomas  de  Greseley,=pCatherina,  filia 

1    1 
Simon, 

1    1 
Jan  a, 

1    1 
Elizab.,  3 

Ar.,  D'n's  de  Castle 

Tho.  Walsing- 

2  filius. 

1  filia. 

— 

Greseley,  Colton,  et 

ham  de  Skad- 

— 

— 

Gracea,  4 

Drakelowe,  modo 

bury  in  Com. 

Hastin- 

Maria, 2. 

sup'stes  an0  D'ni 

Kantia3,militis. 

gs, 

1583. 

3  filius. 

Henricus  de  Greseley,     Georgius,  2  filius.  Catherina,  1  filia. 

priinogenitus,     astatis  —  — 

4  annorum  an0  1583.      Joh'es,  3  filius.  Catherina,  2  filia. 

Will'm's,  4  filius. 


Aems. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Azure,  a  garb  or  between  three  bezants, 
two  in  /esse  and  one  in  base.  [Grosvenor.]  2.  Argent,  a  bend 
sable  between  three  mullets  gules.  [Clayton.]  3.  Argent,  on  a 
/esse  cottised  sable  three  escallops  of  the  field.  [Bushbury.] 


Humfrey  Grosevenour,  a  yonger  brother*^ 
of  the  familie  of  Grosevenour  of  Eton  in 
Com.  Cestr. 


:.  .  .  .f  da.  and  heire  of  ... . 
Clerke  of  Typton  in  Com. 

Stafforde. 


John  Grosevenour  of  Bushbury^ 
in  the  Countye  of  Stafford,  Esq1', 
Justice  of  the  peace  &  quorum. 


:Rose,  da.  of  John  Clayton,  by  his  wife 
the  da.  and  heire  of  Richarde  Bush- 
bury,  and  heire  to  them  bo  the. 


*  It  is  clear  from  the  researches  of  the  late  well-known  genealogist,  Mr.  Joseph 
Morris  of  Shrewsbury,  that  the  Grosvenors  of  Bushbury  were  not,  as  here  and  else- 
where stated,  a  junior  branch  of  the  Grosvenors  of  Eaton.  Ilumphrey  Grosvenor, 
who  heads  this  pedigree,  was  of  Farncote,  Co.  Salop,  the  son  of  William  Grosvenor, 
or  Gravenor,  of  Broughton,  in  the  parish  of  Claverley,  and  the  descendant  of  a 
family  which  derived  its  name  from  a  place  called  Gravenor  in  the  same  parish. 
A  complete  pedigree  from  Mr.  Morris's  MSS.  will  be  found  in  the  "  Herald  and 
Genealogist,"  iv.,  481,  and  v.,  33. 

t  According  to  the  Visitation  of  Warwickshire  in  1619  this  lady  was  "  Jocosa 
filia  et  cob.  Joh'is  Welles,  al's  Clarke,  de  Tibbington  in  Com.  Staff."  See  also  Harl. 
MS.  6128,  fo.  25b.     Her  sister  Joan  married  Thomas  Dudley  of  Tipton. 


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91 


James,  2  sonne, 
sans  yssue. 

Kicharde,  3  sonne. 


Henry,*  4  sonne, 
sans  yssue. 


Elizabeth,  maried  to 
Thomas  Newman  of 
Honsworth  in  Com. 
Stafforde. 


Waiter  Grosevenor  of  Buskbury=p  Joyce,  da.  of  John  ( ?  Roger) 


in  Com.  Stafforde  ;  nowe  livinge 
1583. 


Foulke  of  Gunston  in  Com. 
Staford. 


Walter,         Thomas, 

2  sonne.       4  sonne, 
—  sans  yssue. 

Josephe, 

3  sonne. 


Solomon, 

5  sonne. 

Gawin,f 

6  sonne. 


Sarah,  eldeste. 
Gertrude,  2. 


Hester,  3. 

Venice, 
4  da. 


Jonas,|  eldeste  sonne. 


da.  of ...  .  Kinnersley  of  Locksley. 


Walter,  eldest 2  sonne.         Joyce. 

pr  me  Walterum  Grosvenor. 


ffiarcoutt  oi  ©Intjan. 

Arms. — Gules,  two  bars  or. 

Crest. — In  a  ducal  coronet  or  a  peacock  proper. 

Motto. — Le  bon  temps  viendra. 


Agnes,  filia  .  .  .  .- 
Darrell  de  Scote- 
ney,  uxor  prima. 

A 


:Symon  Harecourt  de  Staunton=.  .  .  .   uxor   s'c'da 
Harecourt  in  Com.  Ox.,  miles,     relicta  ....  York, 

militis. 


*  Married  Alice,  dau.  of  Robert  Whitgreave  of  Burton,  Esq.,  and  tlied  sp 
(Hatlierton  MS.,  and  Vis.  Warw.,  1619.) 

t  He  was  of  Siltton  Coldfield,  and  recorded  a  long  pedigree  at  the  Visitation  of 
Warwickshire  taken  in  1619,  being  then  aged  53. 

X  The  wife  and  issue  of  Jonas  Grosvenor  have  evidently  been  inserted  since  1583 
for  at  the  next  Visitation  of  this  County  (taken  in  1614)  Jonas  appeared  and 
recorded  his  descent,  stating  his  wife  to  be  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Humphrey  Cotton 
of  Bold  Rail,  and  his  son  by  her  (Walter)  to  be  then  aged  30.    According  to  the 


92 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Joh'es  Hare- 
court  de 
Staunton, 
miles. 


=Margareta,  filia,  et  tandem 
coheres,  WiU'm  Barantine 
de  Com.  Oxon,  militis,soro- 
rem  Francisci  Barentine. 


Edmundus. 


*  filia, 

nupta  .... 
Cottesmore. 


Gracea,  filia  Humfridi: 
Fitzherberti  de  Upsall 
in  Com.  Hertf .,  relicta 
Will.  Robinson  de 
Drayton  Basset,  2  uxor. 


:Simon  Harecourt  de  Staun-= 
ton,  Ar. ;  uxor  ejus  tertia  fuit 
Jana,  soror  Joh'is  Spenser, 
mil.,  relicta  Ric.  Bruges  de 
Ludgarsall  in  Com.  Hamp., 
militis. 


Wilgef  orta,  filia,  nupta. 


:Maria,  filia 
Edw.  Aston 
de  Ticksall 
in  Comitate 
Stafford, 
uxor  1. 


Jana,  filia  getate  maxima, 
nupta  Joh'i  Grey  de  Envild 
in  Com.  Staff.,  Ar. 


Elizabetha,  nupta  Ric'o 
Chambeiieyn  de  Astley 
in  Com.  War. 


3  I 

Maria, 
inupta. 


1.  Walterus  Harecourt- 
de  Staunton  in  Com. 
Oxon,  et  de  Elenhall 
in  Com.  Staff.,  Armi- 
ger,  modo  superstes 
1583. 


-Dorothea,  filia 
Will'mi  Robin- 
son de  Drayton 
Bassett  in 
Com.  Staff. 


2.  Joh'es  Harecourte. 
Rob'tus,  3,  s.p. 
4.  Edwardus  Harecourt. 
Will'm's,  5. 


Rob'tus  Harecourt, 
primogenitus,  astat. 
9  annorum  1583. 


Michaell        Jana,  prima  filia.     Gracea,  3  filia, 
Harecourt,  —  mortua  in 

2  filius.  Elizabetha,  2  filia.     teneris  an'is. 


Rob'tus  Harecourt, 
duxit  Elizabetham, 

relictam Robins, 

civis  et  mercatoris, 
London. 


Michaell,  duxit 
....  filiam  .... 
Till  ney,  relictam 
....  Grcneway 
de  Com.  Buck. 


4I 
Edw.,  duxit 

....  filia' 

Windsore  de 

Com.  Buck., 

relict'  .... 

Purfrey. 


5|6| 

Walterus  et 
Henricus, 
sine  p. 


Kinnersley  pedigree  in  the  Warwickshire  Visitation  of  1619,  Anne,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Kinnersley  of  Loxley,  was  the  wife  of  Humphrey  Cotton  of  Bold,  and 
therefore,  it  would  appear,  mother  of  the  wife  of  Jonas  Grosvenor. 
*  Florence,  ux.  Sir  William  Cotesmore.     (Lord  Hatherton's  MS.) 


T>a*amt& 


Ear/  v  ',",';■  Heraldic  ErLoraverdcZondcn. 


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Margaret,  quae  Anna,  nupta  ....  Kuivet*  Catherina,  nupta 

obiit  virgo.  cle    Ashwellthorpe,   postea  Joli'i    Herle    de 

—  ....    Bowier,  custodi   Ee-  Sta'nton  in  Com. 

Ursula,    nupta  cordor.  Cxon. 
....    Guisnes 

de    ....    in  Johanna,  nupta  ....  Clark.  Winefreda,  nupta 

Cora.  Sussex.  Antonio  Greneway. 

W.  Haeecouet. 


Compfotwntum  grmoriale  WLalttvi  $arecourt  Be  ©Uenljalc 
in  Com.  Stafford,  Ermtgeru 

1.  Haeecouet. — Gules,  two  bars  or. 

2.  Camville. — Azure,  three  lions  passant  in  pale  argent. 

3.  Nobll. — Or,  fretty  gules,  a  cant<  n  argent. 

•4.  Schaeeshull. — Barry  nebulee  of  six  argent  and  gules,  within  a 
border  sable  bezantee. 

5.  Saintcleee. — Azure,  the  sun  in  its  glory  or. 

6.  Stapleton. — Argent,  a  lion  rampant  sable,  charged  on  the  shoulder 

with  an  annulet  or. 

7.  Bellewe. — Sable,  fretty  or. 

8.  Beits. — Argent,  a  lion  rampant  azure. 

9.  Fitzaxane. — Barry  of  eight  or  and  gules. 

10.  Ingham. — Per  pale  or  and  vert,  a  cross  moline  counterchanged. 

11.  La  Zouche. — Gules,  a  chevron  argent  between    ten    bezants,  six 

above  and  four  below. 

12.  De  la  Pole. — Azure,  on  a  fesse  argent  between  three  leopard's 

faces  or,  an  annulet  sable. 

13.  Hastange. — Azure,  a  chief  gules,  over  all  a  lion  rampant  double- 

tailed  argent. 

14.  Baeantine. — Sable,  three  eagles  displayed  argent. 

15.  Deayton. — Azure,  a  bend  between  six  crosses  crosslet  fi tehee  or. 

1 6.  Popham. — Argent,  on  a  chief  gules  two  buck's  heads  cabossed  or. 

17.  Malines. — Ermine,  on  a  fesse  gules  three  billets  or. 

18.  Reade. — Gules,  on  a  bend  wavy  argent  three  ducks  sable,  beaked 

and  legged  or. 

19.  Alphegh. — Argent,  a  fesse  between  three  boar's  heads  couped  close 

sable. 

20.  Pettit. — Argent,  a  chevron  engrailed  gules  between  three  bugle- 

horns  stringed  sable. 

Post  insignia  Noeli  ponerentur  arma  Beeke  de  Eresby  ;  sed  quaare 
attentius. 

*  John  Knivet.     (Lord  Hatherton's  MS.) 


94  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Iii  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.  is  this  note  : — 

"  D'n's  Roraicius  (or  as  some  books  hath  Gervasius)  Earle  of  Har- 
court  in  Normandy,  &  his  too  brothers  Geoffrey  and  Fulke,  came  in  wth 
the  Conqueror  &  assisted  him  in  the  warres  against  Herauld.  After 
that  the  Duke  of  Normandy  had  won  the  Victory,  the  sayde  Earle  and 
his  2d  brother  Geoffrey  returned  back  agayne  in  to  Normandy,  but 
Foulke  remayned." 


Will'm's  Harecourt,  miles,  cui  quidain  Thomas=pJohanna, 


Harecourt,  miles,  dedit  M.  de  Ellenhalle  sibi 
et  hajredibus  masculis  an'o  4  E.  3. 


uxor  ejus. 


Thomas  Harecourt,  miles.  = 


Thomas  Harecourt,  miles,  obiit  seisitus  de- 
M.  de  Elenhalle  6  die  Julij  anno  8  H.  5. 


Rob'tus  Harecourt,  setat.  10  annor'  an'o  8  H.  5. 


Thomas  de  Astley,  junior,=i=Elizabetha,  filia  et  hreres 


t'pe  R.  2,  an'o  1  R.  2. 


Harecourt,  an'o  1  R.  2. 


Thomas  Astley,  Armiger,  sup'stes  an'o  8  H.  6. 


ffiarcourt  of  ftanton,  tic. 

Arms. — Gules,  two  bars  or,  on  the  upper  bar  a  mullet  sable. 
Thomas  Harecourt,  miles.=j= 


Rob'tus  Harecourt.=j= 


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95 


Rob  tus, 
sans  .  . . 
masculo. 


Aleonora  Leuknell=j=Ricardus  Hare-=pEditha,  nx.  p'ma, 


(sic,  but  should  be 
Lewknor). 


court,  miles. 


filia  et  kasres 
Thomas  St.  Clere. 


....  filia,  nupta     ....  filia,  nupta     Elizabetha,  nupta  Christo- 

....    Swinerton     ....    Lane     de     HugoniErdeswike  pherus 

de  Swin'ton.  Com.  Staff.  de  Sandon.  Hare- 

—  —  —  court. 

....  filia,  nupta     ....  filia,  nupta     ....   filia,  nupta 

....  Wrotesley Ludford Bobe. 


Simon  Harecourt,  miles,  maritus  filise  ....  Darrell  de  Scotney. 


Joh'es.=F 


Svrnon.=p 

! 

I 

Walterus,  nunc,  1583. 
Thomas  Harecourt  de  Ranton.=p. . .  .filia  Hugonis  Eggerton  deWrinehill. 


....  filia,            Johannes  Hare-=f\ . . .  filia  Rad.  Ricardus: 

nupta  Johanni     court  de  Ranton     Breareton  de  Harecourt 

Peishall.              Hall  in  Com.         Malpas,  de  Church 

Staf.  Eaton. 


= filia 

Brodoke. 


Thomas, 
s.p. 


"Walterus  Harecourt,  sup'stes  1583,  de  Tarn  worth, 
uxor  ejus  filia  ....  Cumberford.  


Edwardus. 


2.  Symon,  duxit=p       3.  Ricardus,  4.  Antonius,     5.  Will'm's,  duxit 

....  filiam duxit duxit filia'    et 

Cave.  filiam ....  hosrede'  .... 
Clyve  de                                   Leftwiche      de 
Elizabetha,  nupta       Huxlegh.                                  Wimoneham  in 
Ludford.                                                          Com.  Cestr. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


1 filia,  nupta 

Ruggeley 

de  Lons;don. 


2 filia,  nupta 

....  Bronghton 
de  Longdou. 


3 filia,  nupta 

....  Grey  de 
Doniuffton  Parke. 


Rob  tus  Harecourt  de  Kan  ton  hall,: 
genuit  hos  spurios  sequentes. 


.  .  .  filia  ....  Scryvin,  s.p. 


Joh'es    Hare-=j=Margaretam, 


court  de  Kan- 
ton  hall, 
sup's  tes  1583. 


filia'  Anthonii 
Gibston  de 
Ridgley  in 
Com.  Staf. 


Humfridus  Hare-       Catherina. 
court,    p'genitus,  — 

eetat.    16     an'or'       Elizabetha. 
1583.  — 

Margareta. 


Rob'te  Harecourt=pMargareta', 


de  Bornighall  in 
Com.  Staff., 
sup'stes  1583. 


filiani 
Collyns  de 
Lees  in  Com. 
Staf. 


Thomas      Rob'te.     Elizabetha. 
Hare-  — 

court.  Dorothea. 

Margareta. 


Anthonius       Anna,  nupta  Maria, 

Harecourt.      Beneclicto  nupta 

—  Wilson  de  Thomas 

Edwardus        Wolkscroft  Collins. 
Harecourt.      in  Com.  — 

Leic.  Margareta. 


Isabella,  nupta     Elizabetha, 
Barnabe  nupta  Antonio 


Clarke  de 
Wollaston 
in  Com.  Staff. 


Seystons  de 
Walton  in 
Com.  Leicestr. 

Dorothea. 


This  pedigree  should  be  carefully  compared  with  that  printed  in 
vol.  ii.  of  "  Collections "  (part  ii.,  p.  70),  and  with  Mr.  Bridgeman's 
remarks  in  vol.  i.,  p.  382.  According  to  Lord  Hatherton's  and  other 
MSS.,  Thomas  Hareourt  of  Ranton,  who  married  Hugh  Egerton's 
daughter,  was  the  son  of  John  Hareourt  by  Margaret,  daughter  of 
William  Bracy  of  Pembridge,  co.  Hereford,  which  John  was  son  of  Sir 
Richard  by  his  second  wife,  Eleanor  Lewknor.  In  Lord  Hatherton's 
MS.,  and  in  the  Harl.  MSS.  1077,  1167,  etc.,  a  more  full  and  complete 
account  of  the  Hareourt  family  is  given  ;  but  as  all  these  pedigrees 
require  revision  in  their  earlier  descents,  I  have  thought  it  best  to 
simply  reproduce  the  genealogy  as  it  is  given  in  the  Stukeley  MS.,  which 
I  take  to  be  the  descent  noted  by  Glover  when  he  visited  the  county. 


THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


97 


The  pedigree,  as  given  in  the  MSS.  above  referred  to,  commences  with 
Sir  William  Harcourt,  who  married  Alice,  "ladie  of  Ellenhall,"  living 
11th  John,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  Thomas  Noel  of  Ellenhall  and 
Ronton  by  Margaret  his  wife,  sister  of  Guy  L'Estrange.  By  the  lady 
of  Ellenhall  Sir  William  had  issue  Sir  Richard,  his  son  and  heir,  lord  of 
Stanton  and  Ellenhall,  who  married  "  Orabell,  sister  of  Robert  Quincy, 
E.  of  Winchester."  The  editor  of  the  fifth  edition  of  Collius's  "Peerage  " 
(1779,  vol.  v.,  p.  264),  sub  "Harcourt,"  refers  to  "  The  Visitation  of 
Staffordshire,  anno  1583,"  as  asserting  that  the  above  Sir  Richard 
married  Orabella,  daughter  of  Robert  de  Quincy.  This  is  an  example 
of  the  loose  way  in  which  genealogical  writers  refer  to  Visitations.  No 
doubt  what  this  writer  quotes  is  one  of  the  numerous  so-called  copies  of 
this  Visitation  existing  in  some  public  or  private  library,  which  may  or 
may  not  be  reliable  ;  but  to  cite  it  as  "  the  "  Visitation  is  misleading. 


Igatofecsi  of  &iu$aU. 


Will'm  Hawkes  of= 
Kyder  minster  in 
Com.  Salop  (sic). 


\Elizabeth.  daughter  and  heire 
of  Richard  Reignoldes  of  New- 
ton in  Com.  Staff. 


Thomas  Hawkes  of=pJohane,  daughter  of  Richard  Walker 


Kydemrinster,  and 
after  of  Rushall  in 
Com.  Staff. 


by  Catherine  his  wyf,  daughter  and 
one  of  the  heires  of  Thomas  Harpur 
of  Dorlaston. 


Richard: 
Hawkes 
of  Rus- 
hall in 
Com. 
Staff. ; 
lyving 
1583. 


=Mary,  daughter 
of  Roger  Ban- 
ester  of  Clare- 
brough  in  Com. 
Nott.,  and  his 
heire. 


John 
Hawkes, 

2  sonne. 


Anne,  mar. 
to  Thomas 
Carter,  stu- 
dent in  the 
Temple. 


Catherine,  first 
mar.  to —  Har- 
ward,  after  to 
Nicholas  Snow 
of  Richmond. 


Hillary,  eldest  sonne,  setatis  28,  anno  1583. 

Ryc.  Hawks. 

In  Dugdale's  copy  of  this  Visitation,  and  also  in  the  Harl.  MS.  6128, 
this  family  is  called  Hawkens,  and  the  arms  ascribed  to  them  are  those 
of  "  Edge  alias  Hawkins  "  of  Shropshire,  viz.,  xlrgent,  a  hawk  proper, 
standing  on  a  staff  ragulee  couped  vert. 


H 


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©01  of  Utttle  $uie. 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Azure,  a  chevron  between  three  fleurs-de- 
lis  or,  a  canton  of  the  last.  [Hill.]  2  and  3.  Argent,  ttvo  bars 
c/ules,  each  charged  with  three  bezants,  in  chief  a  crescent  azure. 
[?  Martyn.] 

Crest. — A  lion  rampant  argent,  pierced  through  the  breast  ivith  a  spear, 
in  bend  proper,  headed  gules. 

[According  to  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.,  "  This  Armes  was  confyrmed, 
and  the  Creaste  gevyn  by  patent  under  the  hande  and  seale  of  Garter 
(Dethick)  to  John  Hill,  al's  Hull,  of  Lyttell  Pype,  in  Stafforre,  an0  1560."] 

Nicholas  Hull,  otherwise  called  Hill,=j= 
of  Litle  Pipe  in  the  Countie  of  Staf. 


John  Hyll*  of  Litle  Pipe,  to  whome=pIsabell,  da.  of  John  Ellis  of 


Garter  graunted  these  amies. 


Kydall  in  Com.  Ebor. 


Hughe  Hull,  al's  Hill,=pConstance,  da.  of 


of  Litle  Pipe  in  Com. 
Staff.:  livinge  1583. 


Ogle- 


thorpe of  Oglethorpe  in  Com. 
Ebor. 


John  Hill,  eldest=i=Dorothe,  da.  of  Eob'te 


sonne,   setat.  32 
anno  1583. 


Fitzherberte    of    Tis- 
sinffton. 


Edwarde,  eldest  sonne. 


•2 

Thomas. 

Elizabeth 

3 

Richarde. 

Isabell. 

4. 

Frauncis. 
2  sonne. 

Joane. 

Heugh  Hill. 

*  It  appears  from  a  monumental  inscription  formerly  in  Lichfield  Cathedral,  a 
copy  of  which  is  given  hy  Shaw  (i.,  355),  that  this  John  Hill  died  4  March  1573, 
aged  78,  and  that  he  was  twice  married — first  to  "  Elizaheth  da.  of  Thomas  Ellys  of 
Yorkshire,  esquier,  which  deceased  in  April  1559,  and  liad  noe  issue,"  and  secondly 
to  Jane,  daughter  of  John  Francis  of  Eoremark,  Esq.  This  is  one  of  many  examples 
of  the  careless  manner  in  which  Visitation  pedigrees  were  compiled.  Here  we  have 
a  man  actually  attesting  by  his  signature  a  document  which  asserts  him  to  be  the 
son  of  a  lady  who,  according  to  a  monument  (in  all  probability  erected  by  himself), 
"  had  noe  issue  "  ! 


THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFOKDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


99 


Burnett 


Ricardus  de  Humett,=pAgnes. 
Constabular'  D.  R. 


Baro  Will'm's  de  Simily,= 
vocat  Jordanum  de 
Humet  fr'em  suu'. 


Will'm's  de  Humet,=f=Juliana,  filia  et 


Constabularius  D'ni 
H.  Regis  Anglor', 
D'n's  de  Stanford. 


cob.  seres  Rio'i  de 
la  Hay,  Consta- 
bulary Castri  de 
Lincoln. 


Jordanus    de- 
Similli,  nepos 
Will'mi  de 
Hum',  Con- 
stabularij. 


Ricardus  de 
Hum',  Con- 
stabularius 
R.  t'pe  R. 
p'mi. 


Thomas  Agnes,  filia  WiH'mi=p 

de  Hum',  de    Humez,   nupta 

—  D'no  Baldwino 

Engramus  Wake. 
de  Hum'. 


Will'm's  de  Simely.  Baldwinus  Wake. 


Enger'  de  Hum'. 


Jordanus  de  Hum'.=F 


Will'm's,  nepos  Will'mi     Joh'es  de  Humet,      Johannes  de=j=Hawisia. 
Constabularij.  nepos  W.Constabl'.       Humets. 


....  filia,  ut  opinor,  nupta  D'no  Grey  de  Codnore 
qui  per  illam  fuit  D'n's  de  Shyringhain. 


Robertus  Marmyon,  =p  Philippa, 
D'n's  de  Tamworth.      uxor. 


Ricardus  de  Humet,         Will'm's  =p         Henricus 
Constabularius  anno         de  Say.  de  Humet. 

p'mo  R.  1.  ^Jn 


H  2 


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Hunt  ol  ©a^ton. 


Arms. — Azure,  a  lend  between  six  leopard's  faces  or* 


Rob'te  Hunte  of  Stoake=rDerverguld,  the  da.  of  Sr  Everarde 


Aubeny  in  Com.  North. 


Digby  of  Eyre  Stoke  in  Corn.  Rut., 
Knight. 


John  Hunte  of  Lyndon  in  Com.=f= Amice,  the  da.  of  Sr  Thomas 


Rutl. ;  livinge  1585 


Cave,  Knighte. 


Thomas, 

3  sonne. 

Frauncis, 

4  sonne. 


Gertrude,  wife 
to  Henry 
Sacheverell  of 
Resby  in  Com. 
Leic. ;  after 
mar.  to  Thomas 
Lany  of  Suf- 
folke. 


Susan,  mar. 
to  Rychard 
Frauncis  of 
Tikenhull 
in  Com. 
Derby. 


Dorothe, 
mar.  to 
Nicholas 
Lusher 
of  Shol- 
lande  in 
Surrey. 


Margarette, 
mar.  to  Andrewe 
Reynes  of  Bar- 
rowe  in  Com. 
Leicester,  sonne 
of  Rob'te 
Reynes. 


RetnigeHunte,=pElizabeth,  the    John  Hunte  of  Cay-=j=Mary,the  da;  of 
eldest  sonne ; 
livinge  1585. 


da.  of  Rob't 
Reynes  of 
London. 


ton  in  the  Countie  of 
Staford  ;  livinge 
1585,  2  sonne. 


Nicholas  Lusher 
of  Shollande  in 
Com.  Surrey. 


Thomas, 
eldest. 


Frauncis, 
2  sonne. 


John, 
3  sonne. 


Amice. 
Anne. 


John,  eldest     Rob'te, 
sonne,  setat.     2  sonne. 
2an'o'1585. 


John  Hunt,  junior. 


*  In  the  "Visitation  of  Rutland,"  1618-19  (Harleian  Society's  edition, p.  14),  these 
arms  (together  with  the  crest,  a  leopard's  head  between  two  wings  expanded  or)  are 
stated  to  have  been  granted  to  "  John  Hunt  of  Lindon  in  Com.  Rutland,  Esq.,  by 
.Robert  Cooke,  Clar.,  20  July  1585,  27  Q.  Elizabeth."  I  take  it,  therefore,  that  this 
pedigree  was  not  recorded  by  Glover  on  circuit,  but  entered  in  the  Visitation  book 
when  the  arms  were  granted,  two  years  later. 


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UriSft  Of  Sltuftaa. 

Rob'tus  Legh  de  Adlington.=pMatildis  de  Norley. 


Margareta=j=Petrus=j=Cecilia,  filia  Thomas  del  Hugh,  forsan 


Danyers. 


Legh. 


Joh'is  de  Hugh,  concubiua. 


Petrus  Legh,  =p  Johauna  Johannes=p  Alicia,  filia  ethasres 


miles. 


Haydocke.         Legh. 


.  .  Alcocke  del 


Rugge. 


Rogerus  Legh=pHelena.        Ricardus*        Joh'es=p 
del  Rudge.  Legh.  Legh.   I 


Rogerus.=pElizabetha.         Rad's  Legh  de  Stockwell,=p  Elizabetha 


obijt  1435. 


Langley. 


Rogerus.=pMaria  Joh'es  Legh  de  Stockwell,: 

Sparks.  miles,  obijt  1523. 


Joh'es.=p 
I 


filia,  nupta  ....  Paston. 


Joh'es  Legh  de  Rudge,  modo  sup'stes  1583. 


Roger  Leghe.f: 


Will'm  Leghe=pElizabeth,  da.     Roger   Leghe,      Sr  Thomas -p.  ...  da. 


de  Wellington 
in  Com.  Salop, 
gent'  huisher 
to  K.  Henry 
8. 

A 


and  soale  heire     seconde  sonne,      Leghe, 
of  .  .  .4  Har-     gent'    huisher      Mayor  of 
pur  of  Ruishall     to   the   Ladye      London, 
in  Com.  Staf-     Mary,       after 
forde.  Queene ;    sans 

yssue.  b 


of 
Barker.  § 


*  Father  of  Roger,  who  heads  the  next  pedigree.     (Hatherton  MS.) 

t  Sou  of  Richard.     (lb.) 

%  John  Harpur.     (lb.) 

§  Alice,  dau.  of  John  Barker  of  Shropshire.     (lb.) 


102  THE   VISITATION    OF    STAFFORD SHIEE,   A.D.    1583. 

A  I  B 


Rowland  Leghe,- 
mar.  to  his  2 
wife,  ....  da. 
of  Sr  Richard 
Barkeley,  &  hath 
yssue. 


=.  .  .  .  da.  Richarde  Leghe. 

of — 

Lowe  of  Thomas    Leghe, 

London,  mar.Catherin,da. 

first  of  Sr  John  Spen- 

wife.  cer. 


Will'm= da.  of 

Leghe.     James 

Harington 
of  Exton. 


A  daughter,  mar.  to 


Hanmer. 


1 

Henry  Leghe  of  Ruishall=j 
in  Com.  Staforde,  Armi- 
ger.* 

=Catherin,  eldest  da.  and  coheire  of 
Sr  John  Dunham  of  Kirklinton  in 
Com.  Notts,  Knight. 

Will'm      Godfrey,    John,  4  sonne,  s.p.     Elizabeth,  mar.  to    Mary, 
Leghe,       3  sonne,                 —                  George  Harecourte    s.p. 
2  sonne,     sans           Thomas,  5  sonne.      of  Dadlington   in 
sans          yssue.                      —                  Com.  Leic. 
yssue.                         John,  7  (sic)  sonne. 

Edwarde  Leghe  of  Ruishall;=pAnne,  seconde  da.  of  Sr  John  Farmour 


no  we  livinge  1583. 


of  Eston  in  Com.  North. 


Henry  Leghe,     Lewies,  2  sonne.       Maulde,  Anne,  3  d.  Fraun- 

eldest  sonne,  —  eldest  —  cis,  6  d. 

a3tat.l4an'or'     Richarde,  3  sonne.     daughter.  Howarde,4d.         — 

1583.  —  —  —  Dorothe, 

Edwarde,  4  sonne.     Catherin,  Elizabeth,  7  d. 

2  daugh-  5  d. 
ter. 

Edward  Leigh. 


&ompIcmentum    &rmoriale  ©Utoartft  fLe'gfj   Be    Etusfjan    in 
Com.  Staff.,  ct  tit  Sijatfjctoril  in  Com.  ILctcrst.,  ^rmtger. 

1.  Leighe. — Gules,  a  cross  engrailed  argent,  in  the  first  quarter  an 
escutcheon  of  the  last,  thereon  two  bars  azure,  debruised  by  a 
bend  componee  ;   on  the  cross  a  mullet  for  difference. 


*  "  God-child  to  King  Henry  8.    Died  out  of  his  witts."     (Hatherton  MS.) 


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•n        FS    '  f  Sable,  a  fesse,  and  in  chief  three  lozenges  argent. 

'  Hatcpttr  '    i  Urgent,  a  non  rampant  in  a  border  engrailed  sable. 

4.  Hanbury. — Azure,  a  chevron  or,  in  chief  a  lion  passant  of  the  last. 

5.  Hownhill. — Vert,  six  talbots  passant,  3,  2,  and  1,  argent. 

6.  Cocke. — Argent,  a  bend  azure,  in  the  sinister  chief  an  annulet  of 

the  last. 

7.  Allesley. — Vert,  three  chevrons  interlaced  in  base  or,  a   chief 

argent. 

8.  Bromley. — Quarterly  per  fesse  indented  gules  and  or,  an  ines- 

cutcheon  argent,  charged  with  a  griffin  segreant  vert. 

9.  Chetleton. — Argent,   on   a   chevron  within  a  border  engrailed 

gules  five  bezants. 

10.  Clayton. — Argent,  on  a  fesse  sable  between  six  fleurs-de-lis  gules 

three  crosses  crosslet  or. 

11.  Prayers. — Gules,  a  scythe  argent,  blade  in  chief,  enclosing  three 

fleurs-de-lis,  2  and  1,  of  the  last. 

12.  Whetenhalle. — Vert,  a  cross  engrailed  ermine. 

13.  Bulkley. — Sable,  on  a  chevron  between  three  bull's  heads  cabossed 

argent  as  many  mullets  gules. 

14.  Henstall. — Quarterly  gules  and  sable,  in  the  second  and  third 

quarters  a  fleur-de-lis  argent,  over  all  a  bendlet  of  the  last. 

15.  Hewett. — Sable,  a  chevron  engrailed  between  three  owls  argent. 

16.  Bromley. — Quarterly  per  fesse  indented  gules  and  or. 

17.  Dunham. — Azure,  on  a  chief  indented  or  a  label  of  three  points 

gules. 

18.  Bowett. — Argent,   a  cinquefoil    between    three  reindeer's  heads 

cabossed  sable. 

19.  Zouche. — Gules,  ten  bezants,  on  a  canton  ermine  a  crescent  .... 

20.  Burghe. — Argent,  on  a  fesse  dancettee  sable  three  bezants. 

21.  Bellewe.— Sable,  fretty  or. 


Uriflk  afcua&an,  JSntole*,  etc. 

Arms. — Argent,  a  lion  rampant  within  a  border  engrailed  sable. 

Nigillus  de  Rushall,  D'n's  de  Rushall,=f= 
t'pe  conquestus  Anglige,  et  antea. 


Osbertus  de  Rushall,  Alius  et  haares  Nigilli.=p 


Ricardus  de  Rushall,  de  familia  regis  H.  2,  cui= 
idem  Rex  dedit  M.  de  Rowley,  juxta  Dudley. 

A 


104 


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Ricardus  de  Rushall,  junior,  de  familia  Regis  Joh'is=j= 
cui  idem  Rex  an'o  regni  sui  2d0  eonfirniavit  M.  de 
Rowley  ;  qui  obijt  iu  Guyenna  t'pe  regis  H.  3. 


Hugo  le  Bowelles,  miles,=pAlicia,  filia  et  hasres  Ricardi 


de  familia  regis  H.  3. 


de  Rushall,  j unions. 


Will' rn's  de  Boweles,: 
films  et  hseres,  obijt 
paulo  ante  mortem 
E.  primi. 


rAlicia,  filia  Laurenci  Henricus- 

de  Anneford  de  Com.  Hambury, 

Wigorn.,  militis,  j  uxta  Armiger. 
Hales  Owayn. 


Will'ra's  le  Boweles,=j= Agnes,  filia  astate 


D'n's    de     Rushall, 
sup'stes  7  E.  3. 


maxima    Henri ci 
Hambury,  Ar. 


Henricus 

Hambury, 

miles. 


Will'm's  Boweles,  D'n's  de=j=Elizabetha,  filia  Joh'is=WiH'us  Coleson, 


Rushall,   obijt   in    magna 
pestilentia. 


Gifford,   militis,    D'ni    s'c'd's  maritus, 
de  Chilinton. 


Johannes  Hewet=pCatherina,  filia=j=Rob'tus  Grobbere,  Ar.,  s'd's  maritus. 


de  Walsall,  Ar. 


et  hasres. 


(Sable,  a  fesse,  and  iu  chief  three 
lozenges  argent.) 


Eliza- = Thomas 
betha.     Hexstall, 
Armiger. 


Marga-= Will'm's 
reta.         Stokeley,* 
Armiger. 


Will'm's  Grobbere,  duxit= 
Catherinam,filiam  WiU'mi 
Walsall,  Armigeri.  Hie 
Will'm's  Grobbere  vocaba- 
tur  Will'm's  de  Rushall, 
et  fuit  Hostarius  aulas 
regis  R.  2. 


Liberi  duo  obierunt  sine  exitu. 


*  This  William  Stokeley  was  of  Yoxall.  His  grandson,  Thomas  Stokeley  of 
Toxall,.  had  issue  two  daughters,  his  coheirs — viz.,  Joane,  married  to  Richard  Gres- 
wolde  of  Solihull,  co.  Warwick ;  and  Elizabeth,  wife  of  .Richard  Salt  of  Yoxall 
(Vis.  Warw.  1619,  etc.) 


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105 


Catherina^WiU'in's  Grobbere,  aliter  d'c's  Wiirin's=pAlicia,  filia 


filia  Will'mi 
Walsall, 
Armigeri ; 
us.  1. 


de  Kushall,  hostiarius  Anise  regis  R.  2, 
obijt  1429  ;  uxor  3,  Elizab.,  filia  Joh'is 
Rolston  de  Rolston  juxta  Tutbury, 
obiit  1430.  =f 


Galfride  Ive 
de  Henley 
in  Com.  War.; 
ux.  s'c'da. 


Liberi  duo,        Jacobus  de  Eleanor,  filia  et  hasres,  nupta        Liberi 

sine  exitu.  Rusball,  Joh'i  Harpur,  Ar.,  qui  obijt         tres,  sine 

qui  obijt  3  die  Julij  An0  D'ni  1464.         exitu. 

circa  an' 14  D'n's  de  Rush  all. 

aetat'  sui.  =f 


Joh'es  Cocke  de  Lilleburne.= 


Henricus=p.  .  .  .  filia  et  hasres  Galfridi  Allesley  de 


Cocke. 


Com.  War.,  militis. 


Margareta,  filia  et  haeres  Hen.  Cocke.=j=Will'm's  Harpur,  D'n's  de 
|  Ruisball. 

Johannes  Harpur,=pMargareta,  filia  et  una  haaredum  Joh'is  Bromley, 
miles.  I  militis. 


Rob  tusr 
Harpur, 
filius  et 
hasres. 


Thomas=FDorothea.      Will'm's  Legh=pElizabetha, 


Hoorde. 


de  Shawell  in    soror  et  altera 


Com.  Leicest. 
et  de  Rusball 
in  Com.  Staff. 


hasredu'  Rob'ti 
Harpur. 


Antonius=.  .  .  .  filia =Ricardus 
Kingston,  et  hasres.  Egerton, 
miles.  miles. 


Francisca,  filia  et  hasres,  nupta 
Thomas  Farmour,  et  ipsa  obijt 
sine  exitu. 


Sir  Nicholas  Bowett, z 
Kl,  of  Ryppinghall. 


'-Elizabeth,  da.  &  h.  of  John  Souche  of 
KyrTclington. 

(Gules,  10  bezants  fy  a  canton  ermine,  on 
the  latter  a  crescent  azure.) 


Marg1,  da.= 
&    one  of 
the  he  ires  of 
Sir  Nich. 
Bowett. 


John  Chmvorth, 
brother  to  Sr 
Will. ;  second 


sonne. 


Sir   John' 
Dunham, 
2d  hns- 
bande. 

A 


--Elizabeth,  da.=  Will, 
<£  one  of  the     Chaworth, 
heires   of  Sir    Kl ;  1st 
Nicholas  husbands. 

Bowett,  b 


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A| 


John  Dunham  of  KirtlingtonFf-Benedicta,  da.      Elizabeth,  mar.  to 


{Azure,  on  a  chief  indented  or, 
a  label  of  3  jioints  gules.) 


of 

jambe. 


Fol- 


Richard    Bassett 
of  Fledborough. 


Mary,  mar.  to  Tho. 
Grantham  of  Lincoln. 

Anne,  mar.  to  George 
Meverell  of  Throwley. 


Frauncis, 
mar.  to 
John 
Hasyl- 
wood. 


Catherina,  filia  fetate^Henricus 


maxima,  et  una  4 
hser'  Joh'is  Dunham 
de  Kirklinton  in 
Com.  Not.,  militis. 


Legh  de 
Shawell 
et  de 
Rushall. 


Edwardus  Legh  de  Eushall  in  Com.  Staff.,  modo  sup'stes  1583. 
The  portion  in  italics  is  from  Lord  Hatlierton's  MS. 


Hebron  of  awofbnlmmpton. 

Arms. — Quarterly  azure  and  gules,  three  sinister  hands  couped  at  the 

wrist  argent. 
Crest. — An  arm  embowed  in  armour  argent,  garnished  or,  holding  in  the 

gauntlet  a  battle-axe,  handle  gules,  head  argent,  garnished  or. 

Crista  concessa  Johanni  Lewson  de  Wolv'hampton,  per  Laurencium 
Dalton,  Norrey,  per  l'res  patentee  dat.  6  Novembris  anno  4  Reginse 
Elizabethae. 

Richard  Leveson*  of  Wilenhall  in=p Margerye,  da.  of  ...  .  Hervy 


the   parish  of  Wolv'hampton   in 
Com.  Staff. ;  living  27  Ed.  I. 


filz  Clemente  of  Wolv'hampton. 


Richard  Leveson,  to  whome=p        John 
his  parents  gave  the  landes  Leveson.j 

in  Wolverhampton.  a 


Geffrey  Leveson, 
yongest  sonne. 


*  Son  of  John,  and  grandson  of  Richard,  by  Agnes,  dau.  of  William  Clement, 
"and  his  heire."     (Hathcrton  MS.) 

t  The  Hathcrton  MS.  styles  him  eldest  son,  and  gives  his  descendants  down  to 
Richard  Lcweson  of  Prcstwood,  "  lyving  7  H.  1  &  18  II.  7,"  who  married  "  Jane,  d. 
&  h.  of  Tho.  Bradbury,  K',  Mayor  of  London,"  and  had  issue  Nicholas,  s.  and  h., 
and  James  of  "  Lylleshall  in  Com.  Staff."  But  see  Shaw,  ii.,  169,  where  the  descent 
is  given  differently. 


Jtftosiro.. 


Harry  Solute.  Hsrzddic-ETioraverJicZondori 


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Al 


Richard  Leveson  of  Wolv'hanipton.=i=Christian,  da.  of 


Richard  Leveson,        Will'm  Leveson,=pJoane,  da. 


eldest  sonne,  s.p.  2  sonne. 


of 


Richarde  Leveson.=Julian,  da.  of .  .  . 


Will'm  Leveson  of  Wolv'hampton,  cosin  and  heire=j=Isabell,  da. 
to  Richard  his  greate  uncle,  5  H.  6.  of . 


Richard  Leveson  of  Wolv'harnpton.=f= Joyce,  da.  of  Foulke  Birmingham. 


Will'm  Leveson,=p.  .  .  .*  da.  and  heire      Foulke  Leveson  of  Wolver- 
3  sonne.  of ...  .  Bushburrye.     hampton,  eldest  sonne,  s.p. 


John  Leveson  of  Worley=f=Elizabeth,  da.  of  Roger  Foulke 
Parva  in  Com.  Staff.  of  Brewoode  in  Com.  Stafford. 


John  Leveson, =.  ...  da.  of  John     Thomas,       Margaret,       Joyce, 
eldest  sonne.         Bretayne  of  Tam-     2  sonne.       eldest,  — 

worth.  —  mar.  Mary. 

Richard, 

3  sonne. 


Walter  Leveson,  heire  of  his=p  Elizabeth,  da.  of  ...  .  Arden 


brother  Foulke,  5  H.  7. 


of  Parkhall  in  Com.  Warw. 


Elizabeth,  Thomas  Leveson=pAnne,  da.  of  Rich.  Wrothesley, 


mar.  to of  Wolv'hampton, 

Woodshawe.        eldest  sonne. 


sister  to  Walter  of  Wrothesley. 


Jane,   da. = Richard  Poultney  of  Misterton,  2  sonne 
and  heire.     of  Sr  Tho.  Poultneye. 

*  She  was  Helena,  dau.  and  coheir  of  John  Clayton  of  Harwood  Parva,  Co. 
Lancaster,  by  the  heiress  of  Bushbury,  and  sister  of  Eose,  the  wife  of  John  Grosvenor. 
See  Shaw,  ii.,  178 ;  Dugdale's  "  Warwickshire,"  etc. 


108 


THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


John  Leveson  of=f=Joyce,  da.  of  John  Ashfeilde 


Wolv'hampton, 
by  thentayle. 


of  Eythorpe  in  Com.  Oxon. 


Margaret,  mar.  to 
Rich.  Rydley  of 
Wolv'hainpton. 


Thomas  Leveson=pMary,  da.  of  Walter,  2  sonne,  s.p.  Anne.maried 
of  Wolv'hamp-  Sr  Eoberte  —  to  Roberte 
Brooke,  Lord  Michaell,  3  sonne,  s.p.  Stamforde, 
Cheife  Justice  —  sonne  and 
of  the  Com'on  John,  4  sonne.  heire  to  Jus- 
Pleas,  tice  Stam- 
forde. 


ton,  Esq1' ;  nowe 
livino-e  1583. 


Edwarde,  Walter,  2  sonne.  Joyce, 

eldest  sonne,  —  eldest, 

setat.  20  Richard,  3  sonne.  — 

an'or'  1583.  —  Eleanor, 

Thomas,  4  sonne.  second. 


Martha, 
thirde. 

Anne, 
fourth. 


Margaret, 
fifthe. 

Elizabeth, 
sixthe. 


Thomas  Leveson. 


Littleton  of  $«laton  ©an. 


Thomas  Littleton. 


filia  et  hseres  ....  Quatremains. 


filia=pThomas 


et  haeres. 


Westcott. 


Joh'es  Burley,= 
miles. 


:.  .  .  .  filia  Ric'di 
Grey  de  Wilton. 


Thomas  Westcott,  aliter=j=Johanna,    filia    et     Elizabetha,  hasres  altera, 


d'c'us  Litleton,  Justici- 
arius  de  Banco  reg-is. 


imu  haeredu'  Joh'is     nupta  Joh'i  Trussell, 
Bnrley,  militis.  militis. 


Anna,  uxor  Johannis  Comitis  Oxon.=== 


Elena,  filia  et  una  lucredum^pWiirm's   Litleton=pMaria,  filia 


Thomaj  Welshe  et  Margernc 
uxoris  sua3. 

A 


de  Frankley, 
primogenitus. 


Whitiugton, 
uxor  s'e'da. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


109 


A| 


Johanna,  hares  maternas  hereditaria, 
nupta  Joh'i  Aston,  militi. 


Johannes=pElizabetha,  filia  et 


Litleton 
de  Frank- 
ley. 


una  hreredum  Gil- 
bert! Talbot  de 
Grafton,  militis. 


Johannes1 
Litleton 
de  Frank- 
ley,  miles. 


:Brigida, 
filiaetuna 
haeredu' 
Joh'is 
Pakinton, 
militis. 


Edwardus. 
Gilbertus. 


Margareta, 

nupta  Edw. 
Newport  de 
Henkley 
[Hanley]. 


Rogerus  Litleton, 
duxit  Elizabetham, 
filiam  Joh.  Stan- 
ley de  Westbrom- 
wiche. 


Gilbertus=pElizabetha,  filia       Geor- 


Litleton 

deFrank- 

ley. 


Humfridi  gius. 

Coningesby  de  — 

Hampton.  Fran- 

ciscus. 


Eliza- 
betha. 


Geor- 
gius. 


Briffida. 


Marga-     Fran- 
reta.         ciscus. 


Johannes  Litleton. 


Ricardus=j=Alicia,  unica  filia  et  hteres 


Litleton, 

s'c'd's 

Alius. 


TVill'mi  Winnesbury. 

(Or,  a  fesse  counter-componee 
argent  and  gules,  a  chief 
indented  azure.) 


Thomas- 
Li  tleton, 
3  Alius. 


:Anna,  filia  et  hares 
Joh'is  Botreux  de 
Salford  in  Com. 
Warw. 


Matildis,=Thomas= filia  . . 

ux.  p'ma.     Litle-        Hunkes  de 


ton. 


North  wiche. 


Johannes, 

prasstitor 

(sic). 


Antho-    Margareta. 
nius.  — 

Katerina. 


Lucia.      Margeria. 
Elena.      Anna. 


Elena,  filia1 
Humfridi 
Swinner- 
ton,  uxor 
prima. 

D 


I 

:Edwardus  Litleton, = Isabella  Wood, 
miles,  obijt  10  filia  Roberti 

Octobris  1558.  Hill,  uxor 

secunda. 


110 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


1                      1 

Edwardus=FAlicia,  filia        Ric'dus. 

1 

Constancia, 

1 
Barbara,  ux. 

Litleton, 

Francisci 

ux.  Jacobi 

Henrici  Gower, 

miles, 

Coken  de 

Foljambe, 

postea  Johan- 

obijt  19 

Ashborne, 

militis. 

nis  Folyot. 

Julij 

sor.  Thomas 

1574. 

Cokeyne,mil. 

Edwardus  Litle-=Margareta, 

1    1 
Thomas.     Constan- 

1    i            II 
Maria.     Gracea. 

ton    de  Pilleton-     filia  et 

— 

cia,  ux. 

—            — 

hallinCom.Staff.,     cohasres 

Jaco- 

Thomas 

Jana.      Marga- 

modo  sup'stes          Will'mi 

bus. 

Holt  de 

reta. 

1583.                        Devereux, 

Com. 

militis. 

Lane,  Ar. 

.  .  .  Lyseux.= 


Johannes  de  Lyseux^Isabella,        Elizabetha, 
miles,  D'n's  de  Fled-    ux.  ejus.        soror  Joh'is, 
burgh  1359, 33  Ed.3.  1359. 


Rob  tus=r=    Will'm's    i     Hugo  de  Lyseux,= Beatrix,  ux.,      Jacobus 


Basset, 
1359. 


Basset,  obijt  ante  patrem.     sup'vivit,  de  Lyseux, 

1359.  1359.  1359. 


Ricardus  Basset,  nepos  Will'mi,  1359. 


Joh'es  de  Lyseux  intalliavit  M.  suu'  de  Fledburgh  et  alias  terras 
suas,  infra  scriptis,  anno  D'ni  1359,  anno  33  E.  3. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Ill 


JHcWtoficfiJ  of  Mntv. 

Arms. — Gules,  a  cross  engrailed  ermine. 

Johannes  de  Macclesfeild=j=Catherina  de  Kingesley,  filia 
de  Maclesfeld.  Joh'is  Kingesley  de  .  .  .  . 


Rad's  de  Maclesfeld.=j=Margareta,  filia  Nicholaus  de 

Henrici  Erdeswick.      Maclesfeld. 


2.  Johannes  de 
Macclesfeld. 


Ricardus  de  Maccles-=^=Julian,  filia  Joh'is      Alicia. 


feld  de   Newport    in 
Com.  Salop. 


Salter  de  Newport 
in  Com.  Salop. 


Franciscus  de=pCatherina,  filia  "Will' mi  Fowke 
Macclesfeld.       de  Brewood  in  Com.  Staf. 


Rad's    de    Macclesfeld=pHelena,  filia  Joh'is  Elizabetha,  nupta  Rad'o 

de  Meare  in  Com.  Staff.,  j  Fitton  de  Batterley,  Sutton    de    Aldelin    in 

modo     sup'stes     anno  I  et  una  hasredu'.  Com.  Cestrige. 
1583. 


Will'm's  de=T=Ursula,  filia 

1 
Edwardus 

III                     III 
Joh'es,  3  filius.     Margeria. 

Macclesfeld 

Francisci 

Macclesfeld, 

—                     — 

de  Meare  in 

Roos  de 

2  filius,  de 

Humfridus,          Margareta. 

Com.  Staf., 

Laxton  in 

Milcott  in 

4  filius.                      — 

sup'stes 

Com.  Nott. 

Com.Warw., 

—              Catherina. 

1583. 

duxit  .... 
filiam  .... 
Watton  de 
Com.  Kantiae. 

Andreas,  5  filius. 

Petrus  Macclesfeld, 

1 

Symon,         Elizabetha,        Elena,  2. 

p'mogenitus,   aetat' 

2  filius.         p 

ma  filia.              — 

6  annor'  1583. 

Sussanna,  3  filia 

W.  Maclesfeld. 

112  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Nos  Humfridus  Comes  Buck.,  Heref.,  Staff.,  North.,  et  de  Perch, 
dedinms  Rad'o  Macclesfeild,  filio  Jolris  Macclesfeild,  senioris,  maneriu' 
n'r'm  de  Mere,  ac  o'ia  ten'  et  ten'  n'ra  in  Mere,  Radwood,  Mereway, 
Sydway,  Aston,  Chesterton,  Audley,  Milburgh,  Bernigeshalle,  Berthertes, 
et  Stretton,  &c.  Habend.  praefato  Rad'o  Macclesfeild  et  haeredibus  de 
corpore  suo  exeunt' ;  pro  defectu  rem'd'  Nicho'  Macclesfeilde,  fratris 
praed'ct'  Rad'i,  &c. ;  pro  defectu  rem'  nobis  prsefato  Comiti,  &c.  Dat' 
apud  Stafford  an0  21  H.  6. 

An  Indenture  made  betwene  Hughe  Erdeswike,  Esq1",  on  the  one 
parte,  and  Richard  Cliffe  and  Margaret  his  wife  on  the  other  p'te, 
witnesseth  that  the  sayde  Hugh  hath  boughte  of  the  sayde  Ricbarde 
and  of  his  wife  the  marriage,  wth  the  .  .  .  .,  of  Richarde,  sonne  and 
heire  of  Rawlin  Maxfeilde,  &c.     Dated  an0  9  E.  4. 

An  Indenture,  be'inge  date  the  9  of  K.  Henry  8,  betwene  John 
Salter,  Richard  Maxfeilde,  and  Frauncis  Maxfelde,  gent.,  on  the  one 
partie,  and  John  Fytton  of  Audley,  Esq1',  on  the  other  p'tie,  witnesseth 
that  it  is  agreed  betwene  them  that  Raulf  Maxfeilde,  sonne  and  heire 
aparente  of  the  sayde  Frauncis,  sball  inary  Ellen  the  da.  of  the  sayde 
John  Fytton,  if  the  Lawe  of  the  Churche  will  suffer  it. 

An  Indenture,  bearinge  date  anno  10  E.  4,  betweene  Hughe  Erdes- 
wike, Esqr,  on  the  one  parte,  and  John  Salter  of  Newporte,  gent.,  on  the 
other  p'te,  witnesseth  that  Richard  Maxfeilde,  sonne  and  heire  to 
Rawlin  Maxfeilde,  shall  take  to  wife  one  Jullyan,  da.  to  the  sayde  John 
Salter. 

An  Indenture,  bearinge  date  an'o  18  H.  7,  betwene  Richarde  Max- 
feilde of  Newporte  in  the  Countie  of  Salop,  gent.,  and  Francis  Maxfeilde, 
sonne  and  heire  aparente  unto  the  same  Richarde,  on  the  one  p'tie,  and 
Will' m  Fowke  of  Brewood  on  the  other  p'te,  witnesseth  that  the  sayde 
Frauncis  shall  take  to  wife  Katherin,  da.  of  the  sayde  Will'm  Fowke  of 
Brewood,  &c. 

Indentura  inter  Rad.  Macclesfeilde  de  Meyre  in  Com.  Staff.,  gent., 
et  Franciscu'  Roos  de  Swineshed  in  Com'  praed',  Ar'g',  testatur  quod 
Will'm's  Macclesfeild,  films  et  hasres  aparens  praed'c'i  Rad'i,  duxit  in 
uxorem  Ursulam,  filiam  prsed'c'i  Francisci  Roos,  &c.  Dat'  an'o  15 
reginEe  Elizab. 


fflaittteanttjj, 


ffarry  Sonne.  S£ra2dicE7iprayer£aZondan 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


113 


JHatntoariujj  ot  etftfjitmort. 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Argent,  two  bars  gules.  [Mainwaring.] 
2  and  3.  Gules,  a  scythe  argent*  In  the  centre  a  mullet  for 
difference. 

Crest. — An  ass's  head  erased  proper,  bridled  argent,  charged  with  a 
mullet  for  difference. 

Sr  John  Mainwairinge=pCatherin,  da.  of  Will'm 
of  Pever,  K*.  Honforde  of  Honforde. 


Sr  Randolphe  Edinond,        Will'm, 

Mainewair-  2sonne,s.p.     4sonne, 
inge  of  Piver,  —  s.p. 

Knight.  Nicholas, 

3  sonne,  s.p. 

Ill 

Three  da. 


Sr  John,     Peres,         Thomas 
a  preist,     6  sonne,     Main- 
5  sonne.     s.p.  wairinge 

of  Can- 
terbury. 


Phillippe    Mayn-=j=Anne,  da.  of    Edwarde  Main  wair-=p  Alice,  da.  &  heire 


wairinge,  7  sonne, 
Lord  of  Pyver, 
1583. 


Sr  Raulf 
Leicester. 


inge  of  Whitmore  in 
Com.  Staff.,  nowe 
livinge  1583,  Esqr. 


of  Rob't  Boghey 
of  Whitmore  in 
Com.  Staff. 


Randulphe      Edmonde,  2  sonne.     Edwarde^Jane,  da.  of     Anne,  mar, 


Mainwair 

inge,  astat.  Thomas,  3  sonne 

xi  annor'  — 

1583.  Edwarde,  4  sonne.      heire. 


Main- 
wairinge, 
sonne  & 


Mathew 
Cradocke 
of  Staff., 
merchant. 


to  Thomas 
Roosse  of 
Weston 
in  Com. 

Notts. 


Edwarde,  eldest    John,  2     Mary,     Elizab.,     Alice,  3  da.     Anne,  4  da. 
sonne.  sonne.       1  da.       2  da. 

Edward  Manwairinge. 


*  This  quartering  is  usually  stated  to  be  for  Boghey,  but  it  is  manifestly  Praers. 
There  was  a  match  temp.  Edw.  III.  between  a  coheiress  of  Praers  and  an  ancestor  of 
Edward  Mainwaring,  but  as  the  issue  of  this  marriage  failed,  and  the  line  was 
carried  on  by  the  descendants  of  a  second  marriage,  the  coat  of  Praers  could  not  be 
legitimately  quartered  by  this  family.  But  as  a  matter  of  fact  it  was  so  quartered, 
and  the  Heralds  seem  to  have  definitely  assigned  it  to  Boghey,  and  thus  accounted 
for  its  appearance  in  the  Mainwaring  atchievement.  It  was  allowed  by  Dugdale  at 
his  Visitation  in  1663  to  the  then  Edward  Mainwaring  of  "Whitmore. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Arms. 


JHorrton  of  iSloretoit  anti  Enjjlcton. 

—  Quarterly — 1.    Argent,  a  chevron  gules  between   three  square 
buckles  sable,  a  crescent  on  the  chevron  for  difference.  [Moreton.] 

2.  Quarterly,  1  and  4,  Ermine  ;  2  and  3,  Paly  or  and  gules;  all 
within  a  plain  border  azure,  a  crescent  for  difference.  [Knightley.] 

3.  Azure,  a  buck's  head  cabossed  or.    [Colover.]     4.  Argent, 
on  a  salt  ire  sable  five  ducks  of  the  field,  beaked  gules.  [Burgh.] 

Mathewe  Moreton=F.  .  .  .*  daughter  of  . 


of     Moreton 
Com.  Stafforde. 


in 


.  Knightley, 
and  his  heire,  a  yonger  brother  of 
the  house  of  Knightley. 


Johnf1 
More- 
ton  of 
More- 
ton. 


-.  .  .  .  daughter 
of  ... .  Downe 
of  Flaxyardes 
and  Utkington, 
in  Com.  Cestr. 


Thomas  More-=pMargery,  da.  of 
tonoflnpjeton 


2  sonne. 


John, 
. .  . .  Shepparde      3  sonne, 
of     Okeley    in      a  preiste. 
Com.  Staforde. 


Thomas  More-=pMary,  da.  of 


ton 
ton. 


of   More- 


Hinton  of  Hinton 
in  Com.  Salop. 


Adame  Moreton  of  Moreton,  Esqr 
nowe  livinge  1583.$ 


Elizabeth,  mar. 
to  Thomas 
Stapleton  of 
Littlewood. 

Joyce,  mar.  to 
Thomas  Row- 
ley of  Hekeley. 


Alice,  mar.  to 
George  Per- 
sons of  Sam- 
borne  in  Com. 
War. 

Jane,  mar.  to 
John  Home  of 
Stoke  in  Com. 
Warw. 


Mathewe  Moreton=p Alice,  da.  of  Tho.  Dickens 


of  Ingleton. 


of  Morehall  in  Com.  Staff., 
&  heire  to  her  mother. 


Richarde  Moreton  of 
Ingleton ;    livinge 
1583. 


Edwarde  Moreton 
of  Ingleton  in  Com. 
Staff.  ;  livinge 
1583. 


Alice,  mar. 
to  Will. 
Dickens. 


Isabell,  mar. 
to  John 
Egginton  of 
Roberston  in 
Com.  Staff. 


Mary, 
3  da. 


Constance, 

4  da. 

Margarett, 

5  da. 


Edward  Moreton. 


*  She  was  Isabella,  daughter  and  heir  of  Robert  Knightley  of  Engleton.  See 
the  great  pedigree  of  Knightley  printed  in  Howard's  "  Mis.  Gen.  et  Her.,"  i.,  97. 

t  James.     (Hathcrton  MS.) 

%  It  is  added  in  the  Stukeley  MS.,  in  Mr.  Booth's  handwriting,  that  this  Adam 
died  without  legitimate  issue,  and  that  he  had  "  one  base  daughter  only,  inarr.  to 
Thomas  Littleton,  brother  to  Sr  Edw.  Littleton." 


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115 


iffloMeK,  or  JHotolteleg,  of  3StMott, 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Sable,  on  a  chevron  between  three  mill-picks 
argent  as  many  mullets  gules.  [Moseley.]  2  and  3.  Argent,  on:. 
a  /esse  sable  three  escallops  or.  [Blithe.] 


1 

Rob'te  Schampion,  Lord  of 

1 
Will'm 

John  Mow-=f= 

Sardon,  dyed  sans  yssue. 

Scham- 

lisley, Lorde 

< 

(Argent,  a  chevron  between 

pion, 

of    Mowlis- 

three  escallops  sable.) 

2  sonne. 

ley. 

Felis,  sister 
of  Rob'te 
Schampion. 


Will'm  Mowlisley.=j=Joane,  da.  of  Sr  Roger  Hyllary. 

(Argent,  senile  of  crosses-crosslet 
fitchee,  three  fleurs-de-lis  sable.) 


John  Mowlisley.=pChristian,  da.  and  heire  of  Rob't  Costliffe  and 
Catherin  his  wife,  sister  to  Sr  Adam  of  Persall. 


Roger  Mowlisley  .=j=Agnes,  da.  of  John  Bate  of  Longam  ;  wch  John 
came  of  the  sister  of  the  Colmans. 

Port  ar.,  fes.  g.,  three  mullets  or,  costed  wth  sa. 


John  Mowlisley  .=pMargaret,  da.  and  heire  of  Thomas  Blithe. 
|  Port  ar.,  fesse  sa.,  three  escallops  or. 

"Will'm  Mowlisley,  the  last  man=plsabell,  da.  of  Will'm 
in  the  oulde  Pedearee.  Harecourte. 


Cornelius  Mowlisley  of  Bilston  in  parochia=f=Eleanor,  da.  of  Rob'te  Speche- 


de  Wolv'hampton  in  Com.  Staff. 


ley  of  Worcestershire. 


Rob'te  Mowlisley  of=j=Awdrey,  da.  of  Will'm 


Bilston  in  Com. 
Stafforde ;  nowe 
livinge  1583. 


Wirley  of  Hampsted ; 
sister  to  Thomas  Wir- 
ley, nowe  the  Justice. 


Elizabeth,  mar.  to 
Richall  Toll  of 
Toll  in  Com.  Staf- 
forde. 


Will'm  Mowlisley, t 
set.  23  an'or'  1583. 


Margarete, 
eldest  da. 


Elizabeth, 
2  da. 


Robert  Mosseley,  ancyently  Mowllesley. 


*  "Ex  Rotulo  in  Pargameno  Antiquo."     (Hatherton  MS.) 
f  Married  "  Lucrecia,  da.  of  Tho.  Whitgreve."     (lb.) 


I  2 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Hcbill  of  ^Ijnt^tone, 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1.  Gules,  a  saltire  argent,  charged  in  the  centre  with 
a  pellet.  [Nevill.]  2.  Gules,  a  /esse  between  six  crosses-crosstet 
or.  [Beauchamp.]  3.  Cheeky  or  and  azure,  a  chevron  ermine. 
[Warwick.]  4.  Gules,  a  chevron  between  ten  crosses  pattee,  six 
above  and  four  below,  argent.  [Berkeley.]  5.  Gules,  a  lion 
passant  guardant  argent,  crowned  or.  [Lisle.]  6.  Argent,  a 
chevron  gules.  [Tyes.]     Over  all  a  crescent  for  difference. 

Crest. — A  griffin  passant .... 


Sr  George  Nevill,  Lorde  Latimer,1 
yonger  sonne  to  Raulf,  the  first 
Earle  of  Westmerlande. 


:Elizabeth,  da.  and  one  of  the 
heires  of  Richarde  Beanchampe, 
Earle  of  Warwicke. 


Sr  Henry  Nevill,  Knight,= 
dyed  before  his  father. 


:Jane,  da.  of  John  Bourchier, 
Lo'  Berners. 


Richarde 
Nevill,  Lo' 
Latimer. 

7 


Thomas  Nevill  of  Mathom 
in  the  Countye  of  Worces- 
ter, Esqr,  seconde  sonne  ; 
had  3  wives. 


:Anne,  da.  of  Rob'te  Grevill 
of  Charingworth  in  the 
Countye  of  Gloucester,  Esq1' ; 
thirde  wife. 


John  Nevill  of  Shenstone  parke: 
in  the  Countie  of  Stafford,  Esqr, 
sonne   and   heire   of    Thomas ; 
nowe  livinge  1583. 


: Alice,  the  da.  of  Humfrey 
Rydell  of  Colcell  in  the 
Countye  of  Warwicke. 


Foulke  Nevill,  eldest  sonne, 
aetat.  10,  an0  1583. 


Frauncis  Nevill, 
2  sonne. 


Jhon  Nevill. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  117 


Bori  of  ©ilrote. 


.  Noell.=p 
I 


Thomas.=p 
I 


I 

Phillipp. 


Allice  Harecourt. 


Rob'te.= 


Phillip  Noell  of  Hilcote. 


Phillip.=pCicely. 


Thomas.=j= Alice,  da.  of  Henry  Wyv'ston  and  his  heire. 

I 

I 
Will'm.=F 


Richard.=p 


Jane  Sonde,  firste  wife.=j=Thomas.=pJane  Draycott,         Rob'te  Nowell, 

2  wife.  thelder. 


Isabell,  mar.  to  Thomas 
Chitwoode ;  livinge  an0 
6  E.  4. 


I 
Rob'te  Nowell  of  Hilcot=pMaulde,  da.  of 
in  Com.  Staford  ;  livinge     ....  Breareton. 
an0  6  E.  4. 


James  Nowell=j=.  ...  da.  of  ...  .      John,  parson  of      Richarde,  sans 


of  Hilcot. 


Poole   of  Langley      Swinnerton. 
in  Com.  Derby. 


yssue. 


1.  Rob'te  Nowell=pMary,  da.  of  .  . 
of  Hilcotte.  Aspland  of  Essex. 


2.  Arthure,  sans  yssue. 


118               THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 
A  | 


Phillipe*  Nowell  of  Hilcotte ;  livinge  Rob'te  Nowell,  Walter, 
1583;  mar.  Anne,  da.  of  Will'm  second  sonne.  3  sonne. 
Crornpton  of  Stone  in  Com.  Staforde. 


Margaret,  mar.  to  Richarde 
Helinge  of  Willnall  in 
Com.  Stafforde. 

Dorothe,  mar.  to  Thomas 
Whitgreve  of  Birchford  in 

Coin.  Stafford. 


Cicely,  to  Thomas 
Crosse  of  Olton  in 
Com.  Staf. 

Elizabeth,  mar.  to 
Symon  Midlemore  of 
Haselwell  in  Com. 
"VVigorn. 


Brigide,  dyed  sans 
yssue. 

Joyce,  mar.  to 
Thomas  Pettit  of 
Hexstall  in  Com. 
Stafforde. 


3.  Andrewe  Nowell  of  Dalby- 

in  Com.   Leic'r  ;    mar 

Flower,  a  widdowe ;  1  wife. 


^Elizabeth,  da.  &  heire  of  Hopton  de 
Glouc,  veil  Salop,  the  lady  Peryente, 
widowe  of  Sr  John  Peryente  ;  2  wife. 


John  Noell  of  Wel- 
borne,  mar.  Anne,  da. 
and  heire  of  .  .  .  . 
Fowler  of  Welsh- 
borne  in  Com.  Leic. 


Henry  Nowell. 
George  Nowell. 
Will'm  Nowell. 


Elizabeth,  mar.     Judithe, 
to  Anthony  2. 

Fonte  of  Fos- 
ton  in  Com. 
Leic. 


Will'm, 

eldest 

sonne. 


Edward, 
2  sonne. 


a  daughter, 
a  daughter. 


Andrewe  Nowell,  mar 

da.  of  S1'  James  Harington  of 
Exton,  K.  This  Andrewe  is 
of  Dalby,  heire  to  his  father. 


Edwarde,  a  sonne.         Luce,  a  daughter.        Theodosia,  2. 


Thomas,  mar.  Dorothe,  da.  and 
heire  of  Henry  Petyt  of  Badger 
in  Com.  Salop,  widowe  of  John 
Kinardesley  of  Loxley  in  Com. 
Stafford. 


Anthony,  a  preist. 

Humfrey,  sans 
yssue. 


Leonarde, 
sans  yssue, 
dyed  yonge. 


*  It  appears  from  a  mem.  by  Mr.  Booth  that  both  Philip  and  Robert  died  s.p., 
and  that  the  line  was  carried  on  by  Walter,  the  third  son ;  of  whom,  it  may  be 
added,  Charles  Perroth  Noel,  Esq.,  of  Bell  Hall,  Worcestershire,  is  the  present 
representative. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFOEDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  119 


Phillipe,        James  =j=Mary,    da.    Arthur.     Elizabeth,  mar.  to     Elene. 


sans  Nowell 

yssue.         of  Pelsall 

in  Com. 

Stafford. 


of  Edwarde 
Mitton    of 
Weston 
under 
Lyzard. 


John  Silvester. 

Prudence,  mar.  to 
Roger  Whitmore. 

Anne,  mar.  to. .  .  . 


Edwarde,  eldest  sonne,      John,  2      Henry,  3       Grace,  onely 
astat.  xj  an'or'  1583.  sonne.         sonne.  daughter, 

Philip  Noell.        James  Noell. 


ex  eijartts  Wltppi  |loel  ne  $tt*ott  in  ©om.  Staff. 
....  Noelus.=F 


Robertus  Noel.  =j= Alicia,  filia  Hugonis  Mounfort. 


I  I 

Thomas=f=Margareta,         Robertus  Noel,=pAnna,  filia  et  hferes  Thomas 


Noel. 


filia  ....          2  filius. 
Strange. 


Greteham  vel  Gretheam. 


Will'm's  Harecourt.=j= Alicia,  filia     Johanna,  nupta     Robertus  Noel, 
et  fiEeres Dufton. 


Ricardus=j=Orabell,  filia 
Harecourt Leger. 


Thomas  Harecourt. : 


Nicholaus      Henricus^ 
Noel.  Noel. 


Robertus 
Noel. 


Ricardus  Noel  =f 


Ricardus  Harecourt,=p 
miles. 

A 


Johannes      Ricardus      Robertus  Noel. 
Noel.  Noel. 


120  THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


A 


I 

Johannes  Harecourt.=F 


I 

Will'm's  Harecourt,  miles.=p 

I 

Thomas  Harecourt,  miles.=j= 
I 

I 

Thomas  Harecourt,  miles. 

24  E.  3.     Johannes  Noel,  films  Roberti  Noel.     Inq'. 


(9&eobnr  of  <©feeobct\ 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Ermine,  on  a  chief  gules  three  bezants, 
[Okeover.]  2.  Per  pale  indented  sable  and  argent.  [Atlowe.] 
3.  Azure,  a  bend  of  lozenges  argent.  [Grin.] 

Crest. — In  a  ducal  coronet  or  a  demi-dragon  ermine,  armed  gules. 

Ormus.=F 


Radulphus,  Alius  Ormi.=f 
I 

Hugo  de  Acover.=j= 


Galfridus  de  Acover.=pMatildis,  uxor  ejus. 


Radulfus  de  Acover.=p 


Hugo  de  Acover,  miles.=j=  Galfridus.=p 

I  I 

I  I 

Rob'tus  de  Okeover,  miles.=p  Ricardus. 

Al 


OOP 

*    f    f    f    f 
flit 

I  t  I  f  T 


<t>Bntet*, 


3am  Soim<\  3&raZdbcErw'rtiverdc  I,  rnfon 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  121 
A] 


I  I  I 

Walterus  Cubley.        Hugo  Okover.        Johannes  Okeover. 


Rogerus  de  Okeover,  miles.=p 

I 

I 
Thomas  Okeover,  oiiles.=j= 

I 

I 

Thomas  Okeover.=p 


Phillippus  Okeover,  miles. 


Thomas  Okeoveiv 


Johannes  Okeover. 


Thomas  Okeover.- 


I 

Phillippus  Okeover. 


Radulphus  Okeover,  qui=f=Agnes,  filia  Joh'is 
obi j t  9  Octo.  1494.  Bradborne. 


Humfridus=pCatherina,  soror  Edwardi  Aston,        Will'm's.        Thomas. 
Okeover.        militis,  filii  Rob'ti  Aston,  militis. 


Phillippus=f=Elizabetha,  filia  Thomas        Nicholaus  Okeover  de 
Okeover.       Babington  de  Dethicke.         Stirston  in  Com.  Derb. 


Matildis,= 
filia 

Will'mi 
Basset  de 
Blower ; 
ux.  1. 


Radulfus=j=Catherina,   filia       Phillippus=j=Margareta,  filia 


Okeover 


.  .  Dunham  ;       Okeover, 
ux.  2.  2  films. 


.  Dethicke 
de  Newhall. 


Isabella.         Jana,  unica  filia,  nupta  Thomas,  s'c'do  filio 
Thomas  Cokayn  de  Ashborne,  militis. 


122 


THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


B| 

c 

1 
Elena,  nupta  Joh'i 
Taylour  de  Burtou 
super  Trent. 

1 

.  1 
Elizabetha,  ux.  Nicolai 
Longford    de    Long- 
ford, Ar. 

Fayth,  4,  sine  p'le. 

Taylour. 

1 

Dorothea,  3,  nupta 

Humfrido     "Welles, 
filio  Ric'di  Welles. 

1 

Matildis 

1 

Joh'es  Welles. 

Rollandus  Okeover=pSibilla,  filia  Henrici  White  de  Bristolia.     Elizabetha. 


de  London,  3  filius, 
mercator  scissor. 


(Argent,  on  a  chevron  between  three  wolf  s 
heads  erased  sable  a  leopard's  face  or.) 


Katherina. 


Radulphus,  Elizabetha,  nupta  Edwardo 
p'rnogeni-  Phillips  de  London,  polli- 
tus.  parius. 


Susanna,  nupta  Thomas 
Franknell  de  London, 
aurifabro. 


I 

Sara, 
s.p. 


^agtt  of  JScautiegert 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Sable,  on  a  cross  engrailed  between  four 
eagles  displayed  argent  five  lions  passant  of  the  field.  [Paget.] 
2  and  3.  Argent,  two  bars  gules,  on  a  canton  of  the  last  a  cinque- 
foil  or,  a  crescent  for  difference.  [Preston.] 

Crest. — A  demi  heraldic  tiger  sable,  armed,  tufted,  and  ducally  gorged 
argent. 

....  Pagett.  *=j= 


Will'm's  PagetV 
miles  ordinis 
Garterii,  D'n's 
et  Baro  Paget 
deBello-deserto. 


=Anna,  filia  et 
hseres    .... 
Preston  de 
Com.  Lancas', 
qua3  obijt 
Feb.  1586.f 


Johannes  Pagett, 
obijt  sine  prole. 

Robertus  Pagett. 


Anna,  nupta=j= 
....  Smithe. 


.  filia,  nupta 
.  Wright. 


Pagitt,  of 


*  In  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.  (and  also  in  Harl.  MS.  1077)  called  ' 
London,  mediocris  fortunse  vir." 

t  If  this  is  a  genuine  Visitation  pedigree,  this  date  must  of  course  be  a  subse- 
quent addition.  It  is  noted  in  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.  that  "this  Anne  Ladie  Pagett 
was  buried  at  West  Drayton."  There  are  several  (not  in  all  cases  accurate)  additions 
to  this  pedigree  in  the  Hatherton  MS.,  but  the  Paget  pedigree  is  so  easily  accessible 
in  the  various  "  Peerages  "  that  it  is  not  necessary  to  note  them. 


$w% 


ffarry  Spa/h'Sanhht  E?h>)t(\-,  r,u-  !,■,,,/,,, 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,   A.D.    1583. 


123 


Henricus,  p'mo-=pCatherina,  fil'     Carolus  Paget, 
genitu',      D'n's     Hen'  Knivet      tertius  filius. 
Paget  de  Bello-     de  Bucken- 
deserto. 


ham,  militis, 
qua?  postea 
nupsit  Edw' 
Carey. 


Edwardus, 
4  filius,  obijt  in 
pueriti  getate. 


Ethelreda,  p'ma 
filia,  nupta 
Christophero 
Alen,  milit'. 


Elizabetha,       Carolus  Allen.       Thomas  Allen.  Maria.      Dorothea, 
quae  obijt                 —                         —  —  — 
in  teneris        Will'm's  Allen.     Joh'es  Allen.  Anna.       Elizabetha. 
annis.                        —                         —                 — 
Henricus  Allen.     Chris toferus  Fran- 
Allen,  cisca. 


An'a,  s'c'da 
filia,  nupta 
Henrico 
Lee,  milit'. 


Jana,  3  filia, 
nupta  Tho' 
Kitson, 
milit'. 


Hieronimus=pAleonora,=j=Rolandus 


Palmer  ; 
1  maritus. 


4  filia. 


Clerk, 
miles  ; 
2  maritus. 


Maria.         Maria  Palmer,  filia  et  hares. 


Elizabetha 
Clerk. 


Anna 
Clerk. 


Dorothea,  5  filia,  Grisildis, 

nupta  Tho'  Wil-  6  filia,  Paget  deBello- 

loughby  de  Wol-  nupta  Tho'  deserto,    2   f ', 

laton.         Obijt  Rivett,  Ar.  modo superstes 

sine  prole.  =f=  1583. 


Thomas,  D'n's=pNazaretha,  filia  Joh'is 
Newton,  mil',  qua  obijt 
Londinu'  16  Ap'  1583. 
P'mo  nupta  fuit  Tho' 
Southwell  de  Com. 
Norf. 


Anna. 


Will'm's  Paget,  filius  et  hares. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1683. 


$ettt  oi  fcgatan. 

Arms.* — Argent,  a  chevron  gules,  charged  with  a  crescent  or,  between 
three  bugle-horns  stringed  sable. 


John  Petyfc  of  Badger 
in  Com.  Salop. 


Henry,  eldeste  sonne,: 
of  Badger,  mar.  & 
hath  yssue. 


John  Petyt: 
of  Badger. 


John  Kin ardesley = Dorothe, = Thomas 
of  Lockesley  ;  da.  and      Noell ; 

first  husbande.  heire.  2  hus- 

band. 


Will'm  Petyt, 


Henry  Petit  of  Paget's 
Bromley  in  Com.  Sta- 
fford ;  nowe  livinge 
1583. 


Richarde. 


Richarde,  eldeste  sonne,=p         John  Petit  of=F.  ...  da.  of 


mar.  and  had  yssue. 


Richard.     Andrewe.     Thomas. 


Hexstall  in 
Com.  Staforde, 
2  sonne. 


Allen,  widdowe  of 
Geffrey  Bilston. 


Thomas  Petit=f=Joyce,  da.  of       John,  2  sonne.      Anne. 


of    Hexstall ; 
livinge  1583. 


Dorothe. 


Rob't   Noell 

of  Hilcotte.         Symon  Petit,  3.     Cassandra.     Jane. 


John  Petit,  eldest  sonne,         Walter,  2  sonne.         Dorothe,  eldest, 
aitat.  10  annor'.  —  — 

Thomas,  3  sonne.        Anne,  2  da. 


*  Although  arms  seem  to  have  been  allowed,  both  Thomas  Petit  of  Hexstall  and 
Henry  of  Paget's  Bromley  were  disclaimed  {vide  p.  14).  According  to  the  Heraldic 
Dictionaries  the  above  arms  were  granted  in  1583. 


THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


125 


PantucK  at  8Wtonm1mmpt<m. 

Arms. — Sable,  semee  of  trefoils,  a  lion  rampant  argent. 
Crest.—  A  tiger's  head  erased  or,  armed,  langued,  maned,  and  tufted 
gules.     A  graunte  from  Clarencieulx  R.  Cooke,  under  his  hand. 

John  Plantney  of  G-reyengham=j=Elizabeth,  da.  of  ...  . 
in  Com.  Linoolne.  Rogers  of  ...  .  Callays! 


Edwarde  Plantney=j=Elizabeth,  da.  of  Will'm         Alexander,  sans 
of  Greyengham.         Lynne  of  Norfolke.  yssue. 


Henry  Plantney  of  Wolver-=pJoane,  da.  of  Richard    Thomas  Plantney, 


hampton  in  the  Countie  of 
Stafforde ;  livinge  1583. 


Creswell  of  Barnes- 
hurst  in  Com.  Staf- 
forde. 


2  sonne. 


Samuell  Plantney,  eldest  sonne,     Danyell,  2 
astat.  19  annor'  1583.  sonne. 


Elizabeth,      Margaret, 
eldeste.  2  daughter. 

Henry  Planteney. 


&obm$cin  of  Sragtou  JSasftctt 

Arms. — Per  pale  or  and  azure,  a  cross  patonce  counter  changed,  a  chief 
quarterly  of  the  first  and  second,  in  the  first  and  fourth  quarters  a 
lion  passant  of  the  last,  in  the  second  and  third  three  bezants  in 
fesse. 

Crest. — The  sun  in  splendour  or,  perched  thereon  a  robin  proper. 

....  uxor  p'ma.=pGeorgius  Robinson  de=f=Johanna,  filia Ilderton. 


Drayton     Basset     in 
Com.  Staff. 


(Argent,  three  water- 
bougets  sable.) 


Nicholaus,  Will'm's  Robinson=j=Gracea,  filia  Humfridi  Fitzherb't 


p'mogenitus  ;     de  Drayton  Bassett. 
obiit  s.p. 


de  Uphall  in  Com.  Hertf.,  Ar. 

(Argent,  a  chief  vaire  or  and  gules, 
over  all  a  bendlet  sable.) 


Thomas  Robinson  de  Johannes,  Dorothea,  nupta  Walteri  Harecourt 
....  modo  sup'stes  2  Alius.  de  Staunto'  Harecourt  in  Com. 
an'o  1583.  Oxon',  Ar. 


126 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


fttitJBcrti  of  fttitJgrrU. 


Arms  ("  Ex  sigillo  "). — Argent,  fretty  {formed  by  perpendicular  and 
horizontal  lines)  sable,  on  a  canton  gules  a  rose  or,  barbed  vert. 

In  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.  is  written  over  the  shield  :  "  Robert 
of  Ruddiard  al's  Tetesworth." 


Rauf  Rudierd  of=p.  .  .  .  daughter  of  Roger  Savage, 
a  yonger  of  the  house  of  Savage 
in  Chesshire. 


Rudierd  ;  lyvinge 
anno  15  H.  7. 


Thomas  Rudierd,  eldest 
sonne,  sans  yssue. 


James  Rudierd,=F. 


daughter  of  Neelson 


dyed  before  his 
brother. 


of  Yorkshire. 


Muryell,  mar. 
to  John 
Smart  of 
London. 


I 

....  a  daughter, 

mar.    to    .... 

Wardesworth. 


Raufe=f=Alice,  da. 


Rudierd 

of 

Rudierd. 


of  Hugh 
Brereton 
of 


2.  John 
Rudyerd. 

3.  John,  sans 
yssue. 


Rauf  Rudyard,= Margery,  d. 
2  sonne  ;    lyv-     of  John 
inge  1583.  Mylner  de 

Com.  Nott. 


Hugh,  sans 
issue. 

Richard, 

sans  yssue. 


James  Rudyerd,  mar. 
Mary,  daughter  of 
Laurence  Kedwelly. 


Laurence,  eldest 
sonne. 


John,  2. 


Benjamin. 
James. 


Thomas. 


Elizabeth. 
Ambrosia. 


Thomas  Rudyard= 
of  Rudyard. 


Elizabeth,  d.  of  John  Osbaldeston  of  Chadlinton 
in  Com.  Oxon. 


Mary,  d.  of  Francys= 
Bydulf  of    Bydulf, 
Esquier,  sans  yssue. 


= Thomas  Rudyerd  of  =  Jane,  2  wyf,  d.  of 
Rudyerd  in  the  County  Will'm  Norreys  of  Fy- 
of  Staff.,  Esquier  ;  lyv-  feld  in  Com.  Berks, 
ing  1583.  Nunc  gravida  mense 

Aug.  1583. 


€[x  ^iT&t 


&tf%tf& 


j^iftillum  tyTjjSfffyfri 


ffarry  Soon*   Heraldic  Enoraver&cZondon 


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Laurence,     John  Randoll,     Richard,     Edmond  Rudyerd,  mar. 

sans  Rudyerd.     sans  sans  Temperance,  d.  of  John 

yssue.  yssue.         yssue.         Osbaldeston    de    Com. 

Oxon. 


Will'm  Rudyerd,     Charles        Anne,  mar.  first  to  Will'm     Alice,  mar. 
sans  yssue.  Rudyerd.     Parrott,  &  after  to  John     to  Will'm 

Parshouse.*  Clanden. 

Thomas  Rudyerd. 
R.  Rudyerde. 


JUigrtcg  of  <#>{mtdtotte. 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Argent,  a  chevron  behveen  three  roses  gules. 
[Rugeley.]  2  and  3.  Argent,  a  horse's  head  erased  sable. 
[Hawkesyard.] 

Robert  Ruggeley,  descended  of  the  house  of  Ruggeley=p 
of  Haucksyard  in  the  Countye  of  Stafforde. 


Will'm  Ruggeley  of  Shenston=j=  Alice,  da.  of  Will'm  Claxson  of  Whit- 


in  the  Com.  of  Staff. 


inffton  in  the  Countie  of  Staff. 


Rowlande  Thirkell,  the  firste=j=Rose,  da.  of  John 


that  came  into  Staffordsh. 


Minours. 


John  Thirkell  of  Smalwood=j=.  ...  da.  of  Sr  John  Poole  of  Harington 
in  Com.  Staff.  I  in  Com.  Derby. 


John  Thirkell  of  Smallwood.=j=Elizabeth,  da.  of  ...  .  Swinnerton  of 

Swinnerton. 

A  B 

*  John  Persehouse  and  Anne  Perrott  were  married  at  Walsall  in  1572. 


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THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 
B| 


James  Thirkell=j=Jane,  daughter 


of  Smalwoode. 


of  Sr  James 
Bagotte. 


I 

Jane,  wife  to  Thomas  Adderley 
of  Blackha^h. 


Raulf  Aderley  of  Cotton  in 
Comitat.  Staff.,  Ar. 


Will'm  Ruggeley,  Rowland  Ruggeley  of  Shen-=i=Elene,  da.  and  sole 
eldest  sonne,  dyed  ston  and  of  Smalwood  in  the  heire  of  James 
sans  yssue.  Countye  of  Staff.  Thirkell  of  Smal- 

wood. 


George,      James,  4  sonne,  Jane,  eldest  da. 

3  sonne.     mar.  Margerye,  mar.    to    Tho. 

da.  of  ...  .  Rowley  of 

Clerke.  Heikley. 


Rebecca,  2  da.,  mar. 
to  Raulf  Rugeley  of 
Dunton. 


Will'm  Ruggeley  of  Shen-=j=Elizabeth,  da.  to    Thomas,  2  sonne,  mar, 


ston  in  Com.  Staff.  ;   nowe 
livinge  1583. 


John  Knottes-  Jane,  da.  of .  .  .  .  Pegge 
f ord  of Malverne,  of  Tatenhall  in  Com. 
Esqr.  Staff. 


Richard  Ruggeley,  Thirkell,       Elene, 

eldeste  sonne,  getat.  3  sonne.        eldest. 
19  anV  1583.  — 

—  Henry,  4 

Rouland,  2  sonne.  sonne. 


Jane,  2.       Margaret,  4. 

Anne,  3.      Penelope,  5. 

Frauncis,  6. 

Wyll'm  Rugeley. 


f$fatxm$jfc$, 


Sorry  Soane  SeraZdicEnpraver'^cZondon 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFOEDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


129 


gfovimtibm  of  liorimrg,  aqtialate, 
ana  Sofwcton, 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Gules,  a  lion  rampant  or  within  a  border 
vaire.  [Skrimshire.]  2  and  3.  Azure,  a  chevron  between  three 
flies  anient.  [Mtjschamp.] 

Crest. — A  demi-man  in  armour,  front-faced,  couped  at  the  waist  proper, 
holding  in  his  right  hand  a  sword  reclining  on  his  shoulder,  blade 
proper,  pomel  and  hilt  or ;  on  his  sinister  arm  an  oval  buckler 
gules. 

....  Skrimshire.=F 


....  Skrimsher,=p 
eldest  sonne. 


Will'm  Skrimshere^ 
of  Muscharape  in 
Com.  Nott.,  and  of 
North  Dighton  in 
Com.  Ebor. 


Maulde,  da.  and 
sole  heire,  mar.  to 
....  Mai-shall. 


.  daughter  and  heire  of=pThomas  Skrirnshere= 


....  Swiushedof  Swinshed 
in  Com.  Stafford. 


of  Northbury  in  Com. 
Staforde,  2  sonne. 


John^=Dorothe, 
Skrim-  I  da.  of  Sr 


shere 
of 

North- 
burye, 

eldest 


John 

Talbot, 

Knight. 


Thomas  Skrim-=F.  .  .  . 
shere,  2  sonne,     daughter 
of  Johnson    in     of ...  . 
Com.  Staf.  Talbotte.* 


Thomas  Skrim-=p.  .  .  .|  da. 


shere  of  John- 
son ;  livinge 
1583. 


of 

Wirley    of 
Hamstede. 


Thomas  Skrim-- 
shere  of  Aqui- 
lotte  in  Com. 
Staff.,  eldest 
sonne ;  livinge 
1583. 


: Alice,  da. 
of  ...  . 
Starkey 
of  Barley 
in  Com. 
Cestr. 


James  Skrimshere 
of  Northbury,  2 
sonne,  mar.  Eliza- 
beth, da.  of  Rob't 
Collyar  of  Darles- 
ton  in  Com.  Staf- 
forde. 


Richarde  Skrim- 
shere of  North- 
bury,  3  sonne, 
mar.  Margaret, 
da.  of  John  Poole 
ofWirrallinCom. 
Cestr. 


Thomas,  eldest  sonne, 
getat.  7  annor'  1583. 


James,  Dorothe,  eldest.         Elizabethe, 

2  sonne.  —  3  daughter. 

Lucye,  2. 

Thomas  Skrimsher. 

M.  Fylston,  for  Ja.  Skrymsher. 

*  "  A  base  dau.  to  Sir  Gilbert."  (Hatberton  MS.)  Sir  Gilbert  Talbot  of  Grafton, 
co.  Worcester,  had  several  natural  children  by  his  "  concubine,"  Elizabeth  Wynter, 
widow  :  among  others,  "Walter  (who  died  1588,  leaving  issue) ;  Humphrey  ;  Eleanor, 
wife  of  Geoffrey  Dudley,  Esq.,  of  Russell's  Hall ;  and  Margaret,  unmarried  in  1542. 
(See  Vis.  Wore,  1569,  etc.) 

t  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Will.  Wyrley.     (Hatberton  MS.) 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFOEDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


&mttfj  of  £rtoragttemttier;?Lgme. 

[Arms. — Or,  an  eagle's  leg  erased  a  la  cuisse  gules,  on  a  chief  indented 

azure  a  mullet  argent  between  two  plates. 
Crest. — A  parrot  vert,  beaked  and  legged  gules,  charged  on  the  breast 

with  a  mullet  or.    (Hatherton  MS.)] 

The  Amies  and  Creaste  of  Raufe  Smithe  of  Newcastle  under  Lyne 
in  the  Countye  of  Stafforde,  lyneally  descended  by  paternell  race  from 
Richard  Torbocke  of  Torbocke,  the  thirde  sonne  of  Sr  Will'm  Torbocke 
of  Torbocke  in  the  Countye  of  Lancaster,  Knighte,  who  was  the  firste 
that  by  an  accydente  was  surnarned  Srnithe. 

Richarde  Torbocke,*  yonger  sonne  of  Sr  Will'm  Torbocke^ 
of  Lancasheire,  Knighte,  called   Smithe  by  an  accydente 
and  dwelte  at  Newcastle. 


John  Smithe  of  Newcastle  under  Lyne  in  Com.  Stafforde.- 


Anne,  mar.  to  Richard 
Colecloghe  of  Chelley  in 
Com.  Stafford. 


Eleanor,  mar.  to  Rycharde  Bloydej  of 
Lloynmayne  in  Com.  Salop. 


Richarde  Smithe,  eldest 
sonne,  mar.  Margaret,  da. 
of  John  Dodde  of  Clar- 
leyj  in  Com.  Salop,  and 
dyed  sans  yssue. 


John  Smithe  of  New-^Margarette,  da. 
castle     under     Lyne,     Ralf    Pickman 
seconde    sonne,    and     Midlewiche  in 
heire   to   his   brother     Comitate  Cestr. 
Richarde. 


John,  eldest  sonne  ; 
dyed  sans  yssue. 


Edwarde,  seconde 
sonne ;  dyed  sans 
yssue. 


of 
of 


Raulph  Smithe  of  Newcastle, 
gen. ;  livinge  1583. 

Ralph  Smyth. 


*  See  Flower's  Visitation  of  Lancashire  in  15fi7,  published  by  the  Chetham 
Society,  p.  91.  But  this  descent  from  Tarbock  seems  to  have  been  suggested  by 
William  Smith,  Rouge  Dragon.  A  John  Smith  of  Newcastle-under-Lyme  had  a 
grant  of  the  following  arms  in  1561  :  Barry  of  six  ermine  and  gules,  over  all  a 
lion  rampant  sable,  crowned  or.  Crest :  A  tiger  passant  argent,  pierced  through  t ho 
chest  with  a  tilting-spear  proper.  It  is  noteworthy  that,  though  the  "  Amies  and 
Creaste  "  of  Ralph  Smith  are  referred  to  (as  above)  in  the  Stukeley  MS.,  no  trick  or 
blazon  of  them  is  given. 

t  Lloyd.  %  Cloverley. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  131 


JtomrtfortJ  of  AomntortL 


Arms. — Vert,   a  stag   trippant  proper,    attired    or,    within  a   border 
engrailed  argent. 


John  Somerford  of  Somerford  in  Com.  Staff.  =f 


Will'm  Somerford  of=^="Wynifride,  sister  and  heire  to  Will'm 


Somerford. 


Glover  of  Xewport  in  Com.  Salop. 


Humfrey=p  Jane,  daughter    Anne,  mar.  to  Edward    Catherine,  mar, 


Somerford 
of  Somer- 
ford. 


of  Roger  Roxcetor    of    Barnes-    to  Richard 

Fowke  of  hurst,    neere   Wolver-     Granger. 

Brewood.  hampton. 


Robert,  Margaret,  d.=pGeffrey  Somerford=j=Eleanor,        Margaret, 

sans  of  Roger  of    Somerford    in     daughter       mar.  to  John 

yssue.  Haughton        the  County  of  of  Robert      Haughton  of 

—  of  Beck-  Staff. ;    now   lyv-     Pygott  of     Beckbery    in 

Thomas,  bery  in  ing  1583.  Chetwyn       Com.  Salop, 

sans  Com.  Salop.  j  in  Com. 

yssue.  I  Salop; 

second  wyf. 


Ursula,     Mary,  2.        Elizabeth,  4.       Francys,  eldest  sonne,     Richard, 
eldest.  —  setatis  3  annor'  1583.     2  sonne. 

Susanne,  3. 

Geffre  Som'ford. 


k  2 


132 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Arms. — Quarterly — 1  and  4.  Or,  a  chevron  gules.  [Stafford.]  2  and  3. 

Or,  two  ravens  in  pah  sable.  [Corbett  of  Caus.] 
Crest. — In  a  ducal  coronet  per  pale  gules  and  sable,  a  demi-swan,  wings 

expanded  proper,  beaked  gules. 


Edwardus  de  Stafford,  Dux: 
Buckinghamige.t 


:Aleonora,  filia  Henrici  de 
Percy,  Co'  Northumbrise. 


Henricus  de  Stafford, 
Comes,  natus  Staffordise, 
qui  nupsit  Vrsulam,| 
filiam  Comtissae  Sar'. 


Elizabetha, 
uxor  Thoma3 
Howard, 
Ducis  Nor- 
folciae. 


Katherina, 
uxor  Radulphi, 
Comitis   West- 
inerlandias. 


Maria,  nupta 
Geo.  de 
Nevill,  D'n'o 
de  Abur- 
gaveny. 


Edwardus  de  Stafford,- 
DVs  et  Baro  de  Staf- 
ford. 


:Mariam,  filiam 
Edwardi  Stanley, 
Comitis  Darbias. 


Dorothea,  nupta     Maria, 
Gulielmo    Staf-     innupta. 
ford  de  Grafton, 
miles. 


Edwardus  de  Stafford,  astatis  xj  annor'         Vrsula.         Dorothea, 
anno  1583. 

E.  Stafford. 


*  Raufe  the  sonne  of  Edmund,  the  son'  of  Nycholas,  the  sonne  of  Roberto, 
Baron  of  Stafford,  that  maried  Alice,  the  eldestc  da.  of  Sr  Tho.  Corbett  of  Caus ; 
wch  Eaufe  was  the  first  Earle  Stafford,  and  had  in  partition  of  the  Barony  of  Caus 
the  Castell  and  demaynes,  the  manner  of  Nether  Gother,  the  moyety  of  the  manner 
of  Woorthin  and  the  parke,  part  of  the  chase  of  the  forest  of  Cans,  with  dyvers 
other  landes,  and  dyvers  knights'  fees  by  partition,  the  21st  of  Kinge  Ed.  3. 
(Hatherton  MS.) 

f  Attainted  the  10th  Henry  8.     (lb.) 

j  Ursula,  da.  to  the  Countes  of  Salisbury,  Margaret,  and  of  her  husband  Sr 
Richard  Poole,  Kl  of  the  Garter.     {lb.) 


THE   VISITATION    OF    STAFFOEDSHIEE,    A.D.    1583. 


133 


&tamtoi*&  of  $urg  ?8alL 

Arms. — Concessa  "Will'mo  Stamforde  de  Holloway*  in  Com.  Middlesex, 

per  Christoph'  Barker,  Garter,  dat.  26  Maij  1542,  an0  H.  8,  34. 

— Argent,  three  bars  azure,  a  canton  or,  thereon  a  /esse,  and  in 

chief  three  mascles  sable. 
Crest. — A  gauntlet  or,  holding  a  broken  sword,  hilt  and  pomel  sable, 

blade  argent. 


Rob'te  Stamforde  of  Rowley: 
in  Com.  Stafforde. 


=Margery,  da.  and  heire  of .  . 
Fisher  of  Rowley  juxta  Staf. 


1 

John,  a 

1 
"Will'ni=pMargaret,  da.  and  heire 

1 

Thomas = 

=.  .  .  .  da. 

preiste  ; 

Stamforde 

of  ...  .  Gydney  of  Lon- 

Stamford 

of 

sans 

of  Lon- 

don. Shelyethburyedat 

of  Row- 

Henshawe, 

yssue. 

don, 

Islington ;  quse  obi j  1 10 

ley;  3 

Mayor  of 

m'ohant ; 

Octobris  1541,  sepulta 

sonne. 

Gloucester, 

2  sonne. 

in  australi  parte  ejus- 
dem  eccl'ge. 

and  his 
heire. 

John,         Sr  Will'm  Stamforde  of  Hadley- 

eldest        in    Com.     Midlesex,    Knight, 

sonne  ;       Justice  of  the  Com'on  Bench  ; 

sans  natus  22  Augusti  an'o  1509  ; 

yssue.         qui   obijt   28   Augusti  an0   6 

reginae  Maria?  ;  sepultus  apud 

Hadly.     Made  Knight  an'o  1 

et  2  Phil,  et  Marias. 


=Alice,  eldest  da.  of  John 
Palmer  of  Kentish  towne ; 
wch  John  lyeth  buried  in 
Sl  Pankridge  Church, 
neere  Grey's  Inne ;  obijt 
ipsa  apud  Hadley  20  Sep- 
tembris  an'o  15  Regime 
Elizabethan,  et  sepulta 
jacet  apud  Hadley. 


Rob'te  Stamforde  of  Pury-hall  in=f=Anne,  da.  of  John  Leveson  of 


Com.    Staf.,  Esqr 
1583;    natus   fuit 
an'o  1539. 


nowe  livinge 
31    Januarij 


"Wolverhampton  in  Com.  Staf- 
ford, Esqr ;  qui  sepultus  jacet 
apud  "Wolv'hampton. 


Edwarde  Rob'te,  2  Frauncis,  Mary,        Margaret,  5  da. 

Stamford,  sonne.  eldest  da.  3  da.                   — 

eldest                      —                 —  —  Agatha,  sixth 

sonne,  getat.  Charles,  3  Catherin,  Anne.        da. 

19an'or'  sonne.  2  da. 
1583. 

*  Sic,  sed  query  Hadley  1 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


A 

Thomas 

Will'm,  3  sonne 

1 
Henry 

Raulf 

1 

John 

Stamford, 

mar.  Eleanor,  da 

Stamforde     Stamford, 

Stamford, 

2  soime. 

of   Xp'er     Pal- 

and  M 

ar-     Mr  of 

G  sonne. 

mer  of  Shenley. 

garet  were    Arte,  5 

twines, 

sonne. 

4  sonne. 

Margaret, 

1 
Frauncis,  2  da 

.,  mar. 

1 
Dorothe,  mar. 

1 
^  inifride, 

eldest  da.: 

to  Thomas  Repington 

to  Vincent 

4  da.  ; 

died  s.p. 

of   Armington 

juxta 

Pidcoke. 

sans  yssne. 

Tamworth     in 

Com. 

3  da. 

Warwicke. 

1 

1 

John 

1    1 
Humfrey, 

1 

Rob'te 

1 
Anne,  eldest 

1 
Frauncis,  2 

Repington, 

2  sonne. 

Pidcocke, 

daughter. 

daughter. 

eldest 

— 

eldest 

sonne. 

Edward, 
3  sonne. 

sonne. 

Catherin,  5  da., 
mar.     to    John 
Bambury  of 
London. 


Anne,  6  da. 
sans  yssue. 


Margaret,  a  tweene,  borne  wth  her 
brother  Henry;  mar.  to  Richard 
Astley,  yonger  brother  to  the 
Master  of  the  Jewell  Howse. 


Edwarde,  a 
sonne. 


I    I 

Twoe  da., 
tweenes. 


Drue  Astley, 
eldest  sonne. 


Henry  Astley, 
2  sonne. 


I 

Mary 

Astley. 


Thomas, 
3  sonne ; 
sans 
yssue. 


Anne,    mar.    to 
....  Withers  of 

London,     mar- 
chante ;    sans 
yssue. 


Anne. 


Alice.  Elizabeth,  mar.  to 
Edmonde  Atcombe, 
citizen  and  goulde- 
smith  of  London. 


Allice. 


Elizabeth. 


Joane,    mar. 
to    Edwarde 
Cooke  of 
London, 
goldsmith. 


Har'm  filial1'  du«3  nuptas  fuerunt  duobus  fratribns 
de  Dickens  de  Bobinton  in  Com.  Staff,  quaru'  una 
nupta  Humf.  Dickens  p'  creavit. 


Will'm's  Dickens  de  Bobington. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,   A.D.    1583. 


135 


Richard  Cooke,   mar sister  of  .  .  . 

Greve  of  Salisbury  Parke  in  Com.  Hertf'rd. 


One  sonne.       2  da. 


Anne  Cooke,  mar.  to 
Will'm  Goody er,  sonne 
and  heire  of  Henry 
Goodyere,  Alderman  of 
London.     =7= 


Henry  Goodyere  of  Had-    Will'm 

ley,   mar da.  and     Goodyere. 

heire  of ... .  Rumbalde  de 
Com.  Hertforde. 


Anne,  mar.  to  Thomas     Ciceley. 
Walkden,  sonne   and 
heire  to ...  .  Walkden 
of  London. 


A  sonne. 


Daughters. 


A  daughter. 

Robert  Staunford. 


&tamfcv&  of  &otolei>  anfi  ^aftmgtoiu 

Arms. — Argent,  three  bars  azure,  on  a  canton  gules  a  gauntlet  or,  holding 
a  broken  sword,  blade  argent,  hilt  and  pomel  sable. 

Crest. — A  stag's  head  couped  argent,  guttee  de  sang,  gorged  ivith  a 
gemelle  gides. 

Walter  Acton  of  Acton-hall  of  Amersley  in  Com.  Wigorn'.=p 


Isabel],*  daughter 

and  coheire. 


:Sr  Thomas  Blounte 
of  Kinlet  in  Com. 
Salop. 


Joyce,  mar.  to  Richardef 
Barnaby  of  Bokington  in 
Com.  Herford. 


Walter  Blounte  of  Astley  in  Com.  Wigorn' 
3  sonne  of  Sr  Thomas. 


*  This  is  a  mistake.  Isabel,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  "Walter  Acton  of 
Ombersley,  was  the  wife  not  the  mother  of  "Walter  Blount  of  Astley.  She  was  the 
widow  of  Thomas  Broughton  of  Longdon  (see  that  pedigree),  and  lies  buried  (ob. 
8  Jan.  1562)  with  her  second  husband  in  Astley  Church.  (See  M.I.  in  Nash's 
"  "Worcestershire,"  i.,  43.) 

f  Should  be  Thomas  Barneby  of  Brockhampton. 


136 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


^Thomas  Stamforde  of  Rowley=p 
I  in  Com.  Stafforde,  thirde  sonne 
\  of  Eob'te  Stamford  of  Rowley; 
s  buryed  in  the  Castle  Churohe 
\  juxta  Stafforde. 


da.  and  heire  of  .  .  . 
Henshawe,  Mayor  of 
Gloucester. 

(Gules,  on  a  chevron  between 
three  lozenges  argent  as 
many  bells  sable.*) 


Roger  Stamforde  of  Honnesworth  in  Com. 
Stafforde;  nowe  livinge  1583.  Filiusnothus. 


:Margery,  da.  of  Walter 
Blounte  of  Astley. 


Rob'te  Stamforde,  eldeste  sonne, 
ffitatis  20  an'or'  an0  1583. 


Roger,  2     Frauncis,  mar.  to  James 
sonne.         Haynes  de  Com.  Hert- 
forde. 


John  Moore  of  Donkley- 
Parke  in  Com.  Wio'orn. 


-Eleanor,  da.  and  one  of  the  heires  of  Symon 

Milburne  de  Com.  Gloucest. 

(Gules,  a  chevron  between  three  escallops  argent.) 


_L 

1 

Joyce,  mar. 

1 
A  daughter, 

1 
f     A  da.,$ 

1 
Will'm  Stamforde= 

pMargaret, 

to  Anthony 
Babington 

mar.  to .  .  . 
Blounte  of 

.     mar.  to 
....  Whit- 

of  Rowley,  sonne 
and  heire  ;  buryed 

da.  and 
heire. 

of  Tin  more 

Sillington  i 

ti     greve  of 

in  Hounesworthe 

in  Com. 

Com.Wigor 

u.    Burton 

Churche. 

Staff. 

= 

" 

juxta 
Staford. 

1 

=r 

Mathewe  Bab- 
ington, mar. 
....  daughter 
of . . .  .Stanley. 


A  daughter. 


Walter  Blounte, 
mar.    Catherin, 
sister   to    John 
Grey  of  En- 
vilde. 

....  2  sonne. 


Humfreye  Whitgreve 
of  Burton,  eldeste 
sonne,  mar.  da.  of 
George  Corbet. 


A  sonne. 


Thomas,  2 
sonne, 
mar.  da.  of 
....  Noell. 

George, 
3  sonne. 


*  In  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.  is  a  trick  of  "  Hcnshaw's  crest,"  viz.,  A  bird's 
(?  hernshaw's)  head  erased  per  pale  wavy  azure  and  gules,  beaked  or. 

f  Catherine.  (Hatherton  MS.)  She  was  tlie  first  wife  of  Thomas  Blount  of 
Sodington,  Co.  Worcester  (who  died  10  Dec.  5  Elizabeth),  and  had  issue  by  him 
two  sons,  Walter  and  Henry.  (M.I.  atMamble,  Worcestershire,  and  Nash's  Pedigree 
of  Blount,  ii.,  p.  162.) 

X  Margery,  mar.  to  Robert  Whitgreve.     (Hatherton  MS.) 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


137 


Edwarde: 
Stamforde 
of  Row- 
ley. 


:Jane,  da.  and  heire  of ... .  Abington, 
eldest  brother  to  Abington,  Coferer 
to  Q.  Elizab.  This'  Edw.  lyeth 
buried  in  the  Castell  Churche  neere 
Stafforde. 


I 

Jane,  mar.  to     Ursula. 

Edwarde 
Knippe. 


Thomas  Stamforde  of 
Radclife  in  Com. 
Leieest.,   mar.  da.  of 
Edw.  Sprotte  of  Ash- 
enbroke  in  Com. 
Staforde. 


Will'm  Stamforde— Elizabeth,  da.     Elizabeth. 

of  Pakington    in     of  Thomas 

Com.     Stafforde ;     Cumberford  of 

nowe  livinge  Cumberforde. 

1583. 


<#>trctfjag  of  <#>trrtfja^ 

Arms. — Argent,  a  Igmmer-hound  with  his  nose  to  the  ground  gules. 

A  second  shield  of  the  same  coat,  impaling  (for  Cooke)  :  Quarter Ig 
— 1  and  4.  Gules,  three  crescents  or,  that  in  the  dexter  chief  con- 
cealed bg  a  canton  of  the  same.  2  and  3.  Argent,  a  fesse  gules, 
in  chief  three  mullets  of  the  last. 


Phillippe  Strethay.=pJulyan,  da.  of ...  .  Woolseye. 


John  Strethay  .=j= Anne,  da.  of  ...  .  Curson. 


Edmonde  Strethay,         Thomas  Strethay  of  Strethay=pElizabeth,  da.  of 
Clerke.  in  Com.  Staff.  ....  Hopkines. 


Anne,  firste  wife,  da.  of=pJohn  Strethay.^pAnne,   seconde  wife,  da.  of 


Thomas  Kinnersley   of 
Locksley. 


.  Clapton. 


Rowlande.         Elizabethe. 


138  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Aj 

I  MM 

Pliillippe  Strethay  of=pAnne,  da.  of  Will'm     John,  2  sonne.        Marye. 


Leichfeild     and     of 
Strethaye. 


Cooke  of  Trusseley 

in  Com.  Derb.  George,  3  sonne.     Anne. 


I  I  I 

Richarde  Strethay,*  tetatis        John,  2  sonne.         Will'm,  3  sonne. 

15  annor'  1583. 

Philip  Strethay. 


Cfiicitneg  of  Saltnrlrg. 

Arms. — Argent,  a  chevron  sable  fretty  or,  in  chief  a  scythe-Made  azure, 
edge  to  the  chief,  point  to  the  dexter. 

Richarde  Thicknes  of  Barterley,  sonne  of  Thomas.^p 


Henry  Thicknes  of  Barterley. 


James  Thicknes  of  Barterley. 


Lawrence  Thicknes  of  Barterley.=p.  ...  da.  of  ... .  Ridgleye. 


Rauph  Thicknes=j=Elizab.,    da.    of    Roberte  Thicknes,  seconde: 


of  Barterley. 


.  Swettenham     sonne,  of  Bcanmorrys. 
de  Com.  Cestr. 


Ralf  Thicknes=pTsabell,  da.  of  Charles  Rowland  Thicknes  of= 
of  Barterley  Mainwairinge  of  Crox-  Beaumorris  in  Angle- 
in  Com.  Staff,     ton  in  Com.  Cestr.  sey.  -~ 


Will'm  Thicknes,  Capfcayne,         Rowland  Thicknes 
nothus.  of  Bewmorris. 


*  "  Sold  Strethay  to  Alderman  Piot."     (Note  in  Stukeley  MS.) 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


139 


Rob't  Thickness 
of  Whittington 
in  Com.  Staff., 
second  sonne. 


=Anne,    da.    of 
....  Osbarton 
[Osbaldeston] 
of  Chadlington 
in  Com.  Oxon. 


Thomas  Thicknes,  - 
3  sonne,  Citizen 
and  Clothvrorker 
of  London  ;  bath 
yssue. 


:Elizabeth, 
da.  of  ...  . 
Michell  de 
Com.  Devon. 


Thomas,  eldeste      Elizabeth,  mar. 
sonne.  to  ...  . 


Susan.     [John,  2  son. 

(HathertonMS.)] 


Rauf=j 

=Anne,  da.  of 

Catherin, 

Elene, 

Anne,  mar.  to  Thomas 

Thicknes 

Rob't  Bar- 

mar.  to 

mar.  to 

Story  of  Litlehales  in 

of  Bat- 

boure  of 

Anthony 

.... 

Com.  Salop. 

terley. 

Stafforde 

Chetwin. 

Smithe 

— 

Greene. 

of .  .  .  . 

Elizabeth,  mar.  to  John 
Mollins,  Archdeacon  of 
London. 

1 
Ranf  Tl 

licknes  of 

1 
George,  2 

1 
Ursula, 

mar.  to  John  Garnett  of 

Barteiie 

y  ;  nowe 

sonne. 

Audley 

in  Com.  Staff. 

livinge 

1583. 

Rauffe  Thicknes. 


Cmttjmm  trf  forester. 

Arms. — Quarterly — 1.  Argent,  three  griffin's  heads  erased  sable,  beaked 
gules.  [Trentham.]  2.  Argent,  on  a  chief  or  a  raven  (or 
Cornish  chough)  sable,  beaked  and  legged  gules.  [Hoord.]  3. 
Gules,  a  bend  lozengg  within  a  border  engrailed  or.  [Marschall.] 
4.  Argent,  three  pallets  and  as  many  barrulets  all  couped  and 
interlaced  azure.  [Hurst.] 

Crest. — A  raven's  head  erased  sable. 


Will'ni  Treiitham= 
de  Villa  Salopia?, 
Armiger. 

A 


:.  .  .  .  filia 

Horton  de 
Woodcott. 


....  Hoarde  de  Yilla=p 
Salopian 


140  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Johannes  Tren  tham  dcVilla- 
Salopia3,  Anniger,  superstes 
23  Ed.  4. 


=.  .  .  .  soror  et 
haeresWill'mi 

Hoard  de 
Villa  Salopian 


Joh'es 

Hoarde, 

At. 


Will'mus  Hoard 
de  Villa  Salopias, 
qui  obijt  sine 
p'le. 


WilFm's  Hoord,  qui  obijt  sine  p'le. 


Thomas  Trentham  de  Villa=j=Catherina,   filia   et  haeres 

Joh'is  Marschall  de  Hurst 
in  Com.  Salop. 


Salopian,    senior,    Armiger, 
superstes  17  H.  7. 


Thomas  Trentham  de  Villa  Salopia3,=pElizabetha,  filia  Ricardi  Corbett 


junior,  Armiger. 


de  Moreton,  militis. 


....  filia, 
nupta  .... 
Husee  de 
Adbright- 
husee  in 
Com.  Salop. 


filia, 

nupta  p'mo 

Hak- 

luit  de 
Com.  Herf. ; 
deinde  re- 
nupta  .... 
Fox. 


....  filia, 
nupta  .... 
Leighton 
de  Cotes  in 
Com.  Salop. 


....  filia, 
nuptaHugoni 
Rogers  de 
Hamhouse  in 
Com.  Staff., 
quae  obijt 
sine  prole. 


....  filia, 
nupta  .  .  .  . 
Middleton, 
sine  prole. 


Rob'tus  Trentham, 
unus  hostiarium 
Res\  H.  8  et  Ed.  G. 


Ric'dus  Trentham  de  Villa  Salopia3,=pMaria,  filia 


Ar.,  pocillator  reg.  Ed.  6,  dum 
Walliaa  principatum  tenuit ;  primus 
qui  partim  emptione  et  partim  ex 
largitione  magni  regis  H.  8,  habuit 
ccenob'm  de  Rocester. 


Elizabetha,  nupta 
Thomas  Hacluyt  de  Ea- 
ton Court  in  Com.  Salop. 

Joanna,  nupta  (Jodfrido 
Fouljambe  de  Norton- 
lees  in  Com.  Derb. 


Jocosa,  nupta 
Edwardo 
Minours  de 
Utoxetur. 


Catheriua, 
nupta  Tho. 
Lane  de 
Hide  et  de 
Bentley 
in  Com. 
Staff. 


Davidis 
Irland  de 
.  ...  in 
Com. 
Salopian. 


Margareta, 
nupta 
Sampsoni 
Meverell  de 
Throwley  in 
Com.  Staff. 


t5rimi|tam, 


Harry  Same.  H&mldicEn^ra>/erIaZondon 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


141 


Thomas  Trentham  de  Rocestre  in  Com.  Staff.,  Ar.,=f=Jana,  filia  Will'mi 


modo  snperstes  an0  1583. 


Sneyde,  militis. 


Franciscus  Trentham,     Thomas,     Elizabetha,  pedise-     Dorothea,  2 
primogenitus  et  2  filius.      qua  honoraria  filia.J 

hteres,  aetatis  19*  SermiE  Reginas  — 

annor'  an0  1583.  Elizabethae.t  Catherina,  3 

filia. 

Tho.  Trentham. 


CgiTdl  of  itoufbton. 


Arms. — Quarterly —  1 
engrailed  gules 

[BURGATE.] 

embowecl  vert. 
[Bruyn.]     5 


Argent,    two   chevrons   azure   within    a   border 
[Tyrrell.]     2.  Paly  of  six  argent  and  sable. 
3.    Gules,  on  a   chevron  argent   three    dolphins 
[Flambert.]      -4.    Azure,   a    cross    moline    or. 
Lozengy  ermine   and  gules.    [Rockley.]      The 
whole  debruiscd  with   a  bendlet  sinister,  and  differenced  by  a 
crescent  upon  a  mullet. 
Crest. — A  boar's  head  coaped  and  erect  argent,  differenced  and  debruiscd 
as  the  arms,  issuant  from  the  mouth  a  peacoclcs  tail  proper. 


Humfrey  Tyrrell  of= 
Thorneton.§ 


:Joyce,  da.  of 
Inffleton.il 


George  Tyrrell  of  Thorneton  in  Com.- 
Bucks.f 


:Mary,  da.  of  Sr  Edwarde 
Montague. 


*  Married  "  d.  of  Sheldon  of  Beely  in  Worstsh."  (Lord  Hatherton's  MS.) 
She  was  Katherine,  seventh  daughter  of  Ralph  Sheldon  of  Beoley. 

f  "  Modo  Comitissa  Oxon."  (lb.)  She  was  the  second  wife  of  Edward  de  Vere, 
seventeenth  Earl  of  Oxford,  and  mother  of  Henry  his  successor. 

X  "  Uxor  Johan'is  Stanhope."    (lb.) 

§  Son,  according  to  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.,  of  "  William  Tyrrell  of  Wokynden, 
Essex,"  by  his  wife  "  Elizabeth,  da.  of  Tho.  Bodeley,  Esqr." 

||  Robert  Ingleton,  Esq.     (lb.) 

IT  Had  a  second  wife,  Mary,  da.  of  ...  .  Cooke  of  Cheshire.     (lb.) 


142  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Mary,  da.  of .  .  .  .=j=Edwarde  TyrreU,=pMargaret,  da.  of ...  .  Aston 


Lea  ;*  first  wife. 


eldest    sonne,   of 
Walgrange. 


of    Aston    in    Com.    Cestr., 
widowe  of  Tymothe  Eggerton. 


Edward  Tyrrell,     Frauncis.     Cassandra. 
setat.  8,  an0  —  — 

1583.  Charles.       Mary. 


Penelope  Tyrrell,  a 
daughter. 


Thomas  Tyrrell  of  Rush  ton = 
in  Com.  Staford,  gent.  ;  liv- 
inge  1583.  Films  spurins 
ut  dictns. 


Elizabeth,  da.  of 
Lawrence  Swet- 
tenham  of  Swet- 
tenham  in  Com. 
Cestr. 


Margery,  mar.  to  Tho- 
mas Yorke  of  Brackley 
in  Com.  Northamp. 


Thomas  Tyrrell. 


aUntom  ot  Cfjattrrlcj).    SHntom  of  Cloticjl). 

Arms. — Azure,  a  crescent  or  between  three  fleurs-de-lis  argent,  within  a 
border  engrailed  of  the  seco?id.'\ 


Will'm  Unwin  of  Chatterley=j=Elizabeth,  da.  of  Stephen 
in  Com.  Staff.  Chaterley. 


Will'm  Unwin  of  Chaterley. 


B 


*  "  Of  Wallsgrave  in  Suffolk."     (Hatherton  MS.) 

t  These  Arms  are  stated  in  the  Heraldic  Dictionaries  to  have  heen  "confirmed  " 
to  William  Unwyn  of  Chatterley  on  the  18th  of  November,  24  Eliz.  (1581).  But 
vide  ante,  p.  10,  where,  from  the  memorandum  attached  to  the  name  of  "William 
Unwin,  it  would  seem  that  his  right  to  Arms  was  doubtful.  It  may  be  mentioned 
as  a  curious  circumstance  that  the  page  in  the  Harl.  MS.  1570  which  contained 
this  Unwin  pedigree  has  been  torn  out,  and  on  the  opposite  page  is  the  following 
note  by  Wanley  :  "  Nov.  4,  1711.  Mr.  Bale,  perusing  this  book,  told  me  that  in 
certain  books  of  the  College  of  Arms  one  part  of  this  pedigree  of  Unwyn  is  also 
torn  out,  being  ye  same  with  that  what  was  written  upon  p.  69.  He  says  further 
that  he  had  observed  folio  G9  of  this  book  to  be  missing  some  years  since,  while  it 
was  in  ye  possession  of  Mr  Comyns." 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,   A.D.    1583.  143 
A_|  B 

John  Unwin  of  Chaterley.=p  Elene,  da.  of  ...  . 


Raulf  Unwin  of=pElizabeth,  da.  of  Richard  Spencer  of  Congleton  in 


Chaterley. 


Corn.  Cestr. 


Edwarde  Unwin  of^pUrsula,  da.  of  John  Billett  of  Great  Moreton, 


Chatterley. 


Esq1',  in  Com.  Cestr, 


"Will'ni  Unwin  or=pMary,    da.   of    Eaulf  Unwin,    Anne,    mar.    to 


Chatterley  in  the 
Conntye  of  Staf- 
forde ;  nowe  liv- 
ings 1583. 


Rob'te  Vernon  2  sonne,  mar.  Thomas  Badley. 

of  Haselton  in  Anne,    da.   of  — 

Com.      Cestr.,  ....  Barnes  Mary,    mar.    to 

Ar.  of  Cheshire.  Will'm  Bourne. 


Elene,  only  da.,  setat.  John.        Mary.        Margerye. 

12,  an'o  1583. 

WlLLYAM   UNWYN. 


John  Unwin  of  Cloughe,  younger  sonne.= 


"Will'm  Unwin  of  Cloughe.=T=.  .  .  .  da.  of ...  .  Jackson. 


Thomas  Unwin  of=f=.  .  .  .  da.  of  ...  .  Caddy,  sister  to  the  Abbot 


Clous-he. 


of  Croxton. 


[Stephen  Unwin  of  Cloughe.=pCustonie,  da.  of ...  .  Grledenhurst. 


Thomas  Unwyn  of=f  Margaret,  da.  of  Hughe  Brereton,  brother  to  Sr 


Cloughe. 


Andrewe  and  S1'  John. 


Thomas  Unwin  of  Clough  in  the  Countie=pAnne,  da.  of  John  Offeley 
of  Staf.  ;  living  158:'..  I  of  Madeley,  gen. 


John  Unwin,  of  the  age  of  2  yeares,  anno  1583. 

Thomas  Unwyn. 


144  THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 

Verbmt. 

Arms. — Or,  frotty  yules. 
Xormannus  de  Verdon.=FLeceltna. 


Bertramus  de  Verdun,  fundator  Abbathire  Vallis=fJioheis  de 


Sanctse  Maria?  de  Crokedene. 


Verdun. 


I  III 

Thomas  de=j=  Bertramus,  filius     Rob'tus  de     Nicholaus,  sup'stes 

Verdun.  Bertrami.  Verdun.  1224. 

Theobaldus  de  Verdun,  Con-  Johannes    de   Verdun,   vocat    D'nu' 

stabularius  Hiberniae,   carta  NichV  de  Verdu1  avum  suuni,  carta 

dat'  an'o  17  Ed.  2.  sine  dat'. 


Witit  of  &>tatmtJotL 

A  circular  seal,  thereon  a  buck's  head  cabossed,  between  the  attires  a  cross. 

"  SlGILLUM   JOH'IS   VYSE." 

John  Vise  of .  .  .  .=f= 


Roger  Vise  of  .  .  .  .= 


"Will'm  Vise  of  Stawne  in  Com.  Staff.  =f 


"Will'm  Vise  of  Stawne.=F.  .  .  .  daughter  of  ...  .  Howforde. 


John  Vise  of  Stawne.=F.  ...  da.  of ...  .  Bousrhe  of  Whitmore. 


John  Vise  of  Stawne.=pMargery,  da.  of  ...  .  Broughton  of  Broughton. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583.  145 


Thomas,       Humfrey=plsabell,    da.    of   Jenken      Edwarde  Vise,  mar. 


2  sonne.       Vise  of 
Stawne. 


Fitton,  a  seconde  sonne       and  hath  yssue 
of  Gowseworthe.  John. 


Ursula,  mar.  Anne,   mar.   to  Ciceley,  mar.  to  Joane,  4  da. 

to  Thomas  Thomas   Milles  John  Gervis  of  — 

Forster  of  of   Chedley    in  Chatkill.  Elene,  5  daughter. 

Shropshire.  Com.  Staff. 


Will'm  Vise  of  Stawne  al's=j=Catherin,  da.  of  John     John,  2  sonne. 


Stawndon    in    Com.    Staf- 
forde;  nowe  livinge  15S3. 


Barker     of     Couls- 

hurste  in  the  Edmonde,  3  sonne. 

Countie  of  Salop.  — 

James,  4  sonne. 


Andrewe,  eldest     Humfrey,     Elizabeth,  mar.  to  Mary,  3.     Lettyce,  4. 
sonne,  a3tat.  16     2  sonne.       Will'm  Clayton  of  — 

anuor' 1583.  Oneleighe  in  Com.  Isabell,  5. 

Salop. 

WlLLYAM   VYSE. 


Wltl\c&  of  f&orrrrosfc. 


Arms. — Quarterly — 1.  Sable,  a  buck's  head  cabossed  or.  [Welles.] 
2.  Argent,  a  f esse,  and  in  chief  three  lozenges  sable,  on  the  f esse 
a  mullet  of  the  field  for  difference.  [Aston.]  3.  Argent,  a  chief 
vaire  or  and  gules,  over  all  a  bendlet  sable.  [Fitzherbekt.] 
4.  Argent,  two  bars  sable,  a  canton  ermine.  [Marshall.] 

Thomas  Welles  de=j=Cecilia,  filia  Joh'is  Aston 
Parva  Haywoode.       de  Longdon. 


Joh'es  Welles.=f= Alicia,  filia  et  haeres  Ricardi  Aston  de  Horecrosse. 


Thomas  Welles.=p Johanna,  filia  Will'mi  Bonington. 

L 


146 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Johannes  Welles.=p  Anna,  una  filiar'  et  cohasredu'  Joh'is  Fitzherbert  de 
Norbery,  Ar'. 


Humfridus 
Wells,  s.p. 


Rob'tus  Welles  de 
Horecrosse  in  Com' 
Staff.,  Ar',  modo 
sup'stes  in  anno 
1583. 


Ricardus=f=Mariam,         Katherina, 


Welles,  3 
filius. 


filiarn  Joh'is  nupta 
Cockes  de      Joh'i  S 
Sar'  et 
hsered' 


Andrewe 
de  Gotham. 


Margareta,  nupta 
Barthol'  Croche 
de  Com'  Derbias. 


Elizabetha, 
2  filia. 


Dorothea,  nupta 
Ric'do  Duffeld 
de  Com'  Oxon. 


Maria,  nupta 
Joh'i  Chetwiu 
de  Com'  Staff. 


Dorothea,  uxor=j=Hiunfridus  Welles,r 
prima,  filia  primogenitus  ;    bis 


Rad'i  Okeover 
de  Okeov'  et 
una  hasredum. 


nuptus  ;   sup'stes 
1583. 


:Katherina,  filia 
Jacobi  Weston 
de  Lechfeilde. 


Wal  terns, 
2  filius. 


Joh'es,  primogenitus,  ?etat.  7  an'or'. 


Rob'tus,  2  filius. 
Humfrey  Welles. 


m)t  Outavtnjmgcs  of  Mx  Wltllt*  of  ^oI^CTvosjsc  m 
©om.  Staff. 

1.  Sa.,  a  bucke's  heade  cabashed  or.     Welles. 

2.  Ar.,  a  fesse  and  3  lozenges  in  cheefe  sa.,  for  his  difference  a  mullett. 

Aston. 

3.  Argente,  a  bende  sa.,  a  cheefe  varry  or  and  gu.     Fitzherbert. 

4.  Ar.,  too  barres  sa.,  a  canton  or.     Marshal. 

5.  Er.,  on  a  cheefe  gu.  3  besantes.     Oke'r. 

6.  Party  per  pale  indented  sa.  and  ar.    Attlowe. 

7.  Azu.,  a  bende  fesile  ar.     Grin. 

His  creast  a  bunch  of  Holy  v\  beryed  gu.,  banded  ar.  and  sa.,  the 

endes  {  fcu?  ,eJ ? l^  \  *  at  each  side  with  tassells  hangeinge  downe  on 

the  one  side  all  or,  on  the  other  sa.      His  mottoe  :   "  En  Dieu  este 
toute." 
(The  above  is  upon  a  loose  sheet  inserted  in  the  Queen's  College  MS.  at  fo.  48b.) 

*  Sic. 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


147 


VNKbitscidtot  of  Burton, 

Arms. — Azure,  on  a  cross  quarter-pierced  or  four  chevrons  gules. 
Crest. — Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  gules  a  demi-antelope  or. 

[Be  it  noted  that  ther  is  a  Towne  in  Staffordshire  called  Whitgreve, 
joyning  to  the  Maner  of  Bridgford,  which  is  Whitgreve's  lands  to  this 
day.     (Hatherton  MS.)] 

Rob'te  "Whitgreve,  Esq.,  of  Burton  juxta  castrunr^f 
de  Stafford,  died  the  27  H.  6. 


Humfrey  Whitgreve  of  Burtoir 
juxta  castru'  de  Staff,  1  H.  7. 


:.  .  .  .  daughter  of 
....  Eggerton  of 
Wrinehill. 


Thomas,  2  son,  of 
Longford  in 
Shropshire,  s.p. 


Rob  te  Whitgreve,  Esquger,  of=j=Margery,  da.  of  Thomas  Stamforde  of 
Burton.  Rowley,  neere  Stafforde. 


Humfrey  Whitgreve  of  Burton,  neere=f=Joyce,  da.  of  Anthony  Astley 
Stafforde,  Esqr;  nowe  livinge  1583.     |  of  Oslowe  in  Com.  Staff.* 


Robert  Whitgreve,  eldest=j=J«we,  da.  of  John 


sonne  and  heire,  set.  1 
annor'  1583. 


Humphrey,  1st  son. 


Erdeswgke,  2d 
brother. 


Elizabeth,  onely  da., 
m.  to  Walter  Colman, 
gent.,  of  Can!:. 


Walter, 
2  son. 


Ediv.,  3  son.       Jane.      Margarett. 


Thomas,  ^Dorothy, 


2  sonne, 
of  Bridg- 
ford in 

Staff. 


daughter 
of  Mob. 
Nowell  of 
Hillcott. 


George, 
3  sonne, 
s.p. 


Ellen,  1  da., 
ux.  John 
Babington. 

Margarett, 
s.p. 


Elizabeth,  ux.Raufe  B  ag- 
nail of  Barlaston,  Staff. 

Alice, ,f  ux.  ffenrg  Grave- 
nor,  a  younger  brother  of 
Bushberg. 


A 


I  I 

Thomas,     Walter,  5  sonne,  a 
4  sonne.     fellowe   Scoller  in 
Co.     Camb.,    and 
Mar  of  Arts. 


Brigite,  2  da.,  m. 
to  Thomas  Astley 
of  Churche  Eaton 
in  Staff. 


Lucretia,  1  da., 
ux.  Will.  Mowl- 
lisleg,  s.  andh.  to 
Roberte. 


*  In  the  Stamford  Pedigree,  ante,  p.  136,  Humphrey  is  stated  to  have  married 
da.  of  George  Corbet." 
f  Vide  ante,  p.  91,  note  *. 

L   2 


148 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


U 


Henry  Whitgreve,       Edwarde,  2  son,  of      Ilumfrey,  fryMarie   Kelson 


1st  son,  of  Briclg-       Canterbury;  m. 

ford.  Elizabeth,  da.  of 

Edward  Norton. 


son,  of 
Whitgreve 

and  Cheb- 
sey. 


of  NortvyTce  in 
Worcesre. 


1.  William.        2.  Robert.        Mary,  1  da.        Anne,  2  da. 

Humfrey  Whitgreve. 

(The  portion  in  italics  is  supplied  from  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.) 


aw&ortoooti  of  Compton  anil  SUitleg* 

Arms.* — Argent,  a  chevron  between  three  buck's  heads  cabossed  sable. 
(By  the  side  of  the  shield  is  tricked  a  crescent  or,  thereon  another 
crescent  gules,  no  doubt  the  difference  of  Whorwood  of  Lutley.) 

Joh'es  Whorwood  de  Compton  in  Com.  Staff.,  Ar.^f= 


.Tohannes- 

Whor- 

wood. 


Ric'di 
Corbin. 


.  filiana         Thomas  Whorwood,=j=Elizabetha,  filia  nat' 


2  Alius. 


Edwardi  Sutton, 
militis,  D'ni  Dudley. 


Johannes=j=Jocosam,  filiam     Will'm's  Whorwood,  duxit=j=Margareta, 


Whor- 
wood. 


Edwardi  Grey,     Cassandram,  filiam  Edw. 
militis.  Grey.     Hie  Will'us   fuit 

attornatus    generalis    R' 

H.  8.=r= 


ux.  2,  filia 
Ric'i  Brooke, 
militis. 


Anna,  nupta  Ambrosio,  nunc  Comiti  War-  Margareta,  nunc  uxor 

wick,  cui  peperit  filia'  quas  simul  cum  ipsa,  Thomas  Tkrogmorton, 

Anna  matre,  obierunt  sine  exitu.  Ar. 
A  B 


*  Crest :   A  buck's  head  cabossed  sable,  in  the  mouth  an  oak-branch  proper, 
fructed  or.     (Hatherton  MS.) 


^ftjjwaSw, 


Harry  Soarw.IIenil/hc  EngravfrSc  £ondo> 


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149 


|A 


Joh'es,     EdwardusWhorwood,  Eobertus  Whorwoode  Anthonius. 

s.p.  duxit  Dorothea',  de  Sandwell,  duxit  — 

filiam  ....  Bassett.  Franciscam,  filiam  Hieronhnus. 

=f=  Will'mi  Ohelsham. 


Thomas  Whorwood=j=Magdalena,        WhTm's=Anna,  filia 
de  Compton, 
superstes  1583. 


filia 
Edwardes. 


Whor- 

wood. 


Joh'is  Feild. 


Gerardus  Whorwood. 


01iverus=rlsabellam,  filiam     Owinus  Whor- 


Whor- 
wood. 


Humfridi  Grave-     wod,  duxit. : 
nour. 


Eicardus: 
Whor- 
wood. 


.  filiam 
.  Jeloni. 


Johannes 
Whorwood. 


Will'm's  Whorwood  de  Tipton, 
nunc  superstes  1583. 


Gabriell=pMargaretam,      Eicardus  Whorwood=pJocosam,  filiam  Will'mi 


Whor- 
wood. 


filiam 
Dickenson. 


de  Luteley  in  Com. 
Staff.,  sup'stes  1583. 


Uvedale,    oriundus  de 
Com.  Hampt. 


Galfridus         Joh'es  Whorwood,      Oliverus,  2  filius.  Emma,  1  filia. 
Whorwood.     primogenitus                          —  — 

filius,  setat.  20  Eobertus,  3  filius.  Magdalen  a, 

annor'  1583.  —  2  filia. 

Will'm's,  1  filius.  — 

—  Jana,  3  filia. 
Litleton,  5  filius. 


by  me  John  Whorwood. 


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STOortoonti  of  Compton, 


Arms. — Argent,  a  chevron  between  three  lade's  heads  cabossed  sable. 


John  Whorwoode  of  Compton  in: 
the  Countie  of  Stafforde,  Esqr. 


John  "Whorwoode  of  Compton=^Elizabeth,  da.  of  Richarde  Corbyn  of 
in  Com.  Staff.  Corbin-hall  in  Com.  Stafforde. 


John  "Whor- 
woode of 
Compton. 


:Joyce,  da.  of 
Sr  Rich.  Grey, 
Knight. 


Will'm  Whorwood, 
2  sonne,  Attorney 
Generall  to  H.  8. 


Richarde  "Whor- 
woode, Gierke, 
sans  yssue. 


Anthony  "Whorwoode, 
mar.  and  liveth  in 
Devonsh.  and  hath 
yssue. 


Jerome  "Whor- 
woode; livinge 
1583. 


John,  eldest 
sonne,  dyed 
before  his 
father,  s.p. 


"Will'm,  slayne 
at  Bolloygne, 
sans  yssue. 


I 
Edwarde  Whor- 
woode of  Comp- 
ton. 


T)orothe,  da. 
of  Thomas 
Bassette  of 
Hintes. 


Rob'te  Whorwoode=pFrauncis,  da. 


of  Sandwall  in  Com. 
Staff. 


Thomas  Whorwoode: 
of  Compton  in  Com. 
Stafforde,  Esqr ; 
nowe  livinge  1583. 


^fagdalene, 
da.  of  Row- 
lande  Ed- 
warde s  of 
London. 


of  Will'm 
Chelsam  of 
London. 


da.  and 


Will'm  Whorwoode=f=. 
of  Westbromwich        heire  of 
in  Com.  Staff. ;  Feilde  of 

nowe  livinge  1583. 


Gerarde  Whorwoode,  sonne 
and  heire,  setat.  18  an'or' 
1583. 


Elizabeth. 


Thomas 
Whorwoode. 


A  daugh- 
ter. 


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151 


ffijaftortoootr  of  JSobmgton, 

Arms. — Argent,  on  a  chevron  between  three  buck's  heads  cabossed  sable, 
as  many  crescents  or. 


Richard  Whorwood  of  Bobington,  a  yonger 
brother  of  Whorwood  of  Whorwood  {sic). 


Thomas  Whorwood  of  Bobington. 


John  Whorwood  of  Bobington.=f  Anne,  da.  of  ...  .  Cookes  of  Envile. 


Henry  Whorewoode=p  Joane,  da.  of  Will'm  Rick-     John,  2  sonne,  hath 
of  Bobino-ton. 


thorne  of  Bobington 


noe  yssue  livinge. 


Nicholas  Eleanor,  mar.  Elizabeth,  Margery  Joyce,  mar. 

Whorwood,  to  John  mar.  to  John  mar.  to  to  Will'm 

nowe  in  Smithe  of  Haselwoode.  Edwarde  Hollyman. 

Spaine.  Staffordsh.  Sanson. 


Will'm  Whor-^=Margaret,     JohnWhor-=j= da. 

of.... 
Hoch- 
kis  of 
London. 


woode  of 
Bobington  in 
Com.  Staf- 
forde ;  nowe 
livinge  1583. 


da.  of  wood  of 

Raulfe  London, 

Brooke  of    2  sonne. 
Bobing- 
ton. 


Frauncis=p da. 


Whor- 
wood, 
3  sonne. 


of 
Brooke. 


Frauncis,  eldest=Jane,  da.  of  ...  .        Richard,      Will'm.       PMllipe. 
sonne,  setat.  22     Whitmore  of  Clare-     2  sonne.  (Hather- 

an'or'  1583.  ley,  and  his  heire.  ton  MS.) 


Wyll'm  Whorwood. 


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WLvottc&lt])  ot  Wlvottt&Xcv. 

Arms.* — Quarterly — 1  and  4.    Or,  three  piles  sable,  a  canton  ermine. 

2.  Gules,  a  chevron  azure  (sic)  between  three  garbs  or.     3.  Per 

pah  or  and  azure,  two  bars  counter  changed. 
Crest. — Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  sable,  a  boar's  head  and  neck  argent, 

tusked  etc.  or,  charged  with  an  ermine  spot. 

Sr   Hughe   Wrotesley,  ^Isabell,  da,  of  John  Arderne  of  Aldforde, 


Kuighte  of  the  Garter. 


Alderleghe,  and  Echells. 


John  Wrothesley.: 


Hugh  Wrotesley  of  Wrotesley  in  Com.  Staford,=j=Thomasin,  da.  of 
sup'stes  4  H.  4,  turn  setat.  8  an'or'.  Sr  John  G-resley. 


Sr  Walter  Wrotesley  of=pJane,  da.  and  heire  of 


Wrotesley,  Knighte. 


Barrey. 


*  Erdeswick,  referring  to  the  Wrottesley  arms,  remarks  that  the  coat  of  three 
piles  and  a  canton  "  is  set  up  in  the  Hall  at  "Wrottesley  with  a  garter  about  it  and 
somewhat  old ;  and  for  their  crest  a  boar's  head  ermine,  which  this  present  man 
hath  changed  for  a  blue  boar's  head  with  bristles  and  tusks  issuing  forth  of  a  crown 
all  gold.  The  coat  I  know  of  right  to  belong  to  Roger  Bassett  of  Warwickshire, 
and  not  the  title  or  reason  why  Wrottesley  should  bear  it."  In  the  Roll  of  temp. 
Edward  II.  (referred  to  ante,  p.  20)  the  coat  of  "  Sire  Eoger  Bassett  "  of  "  Ware- 
wikschire  "  is  as  stated  by  Erdeswick,  viz.  "  de  or,  a  iij  peuz  de  sable,  a  un  quartier 
de  ermyne,"  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  these  arms,  together  with  the  boar's  head 
crest,  were  adopted  by  Sir  Hugh  Wrottesley,  K.G.,  in  right  of  his  mother,  Joan, 
who  was  a  daughter  of  Sir  Roger  Bassett.  In  a  Roll  of  the  latter  part  of  the  14th 
century  "  Hugh  de  Wryottesley  "  bears  Or,  a  bend  engrailed  sable  ;  and  Glover  told 
Erdeswick  that  the  same  coat  was  "  set  up  at  Windsor  "  for  Sir  Hugh,  K.G.  The 
second  quartering  in  the  Wrottesley  atchievement  is  undoubtedly  Baron,  and  was 
brought  in  by  Jane,  wife  of  Sir  Walter  Wrottesley,  who  in  the  above  pedigree  is 
called  "  da.  and  heire  of  ...  .  Barrey."  She  was  really  the  only  child  and  sole 
heiress  of  William  Barow,  of  Reading;  which  William  Baron  was  one  of  the  gentlemen 
of  Berkshire  who  bore  arms  from  their  ancestors  (see  Fuller's  "Worthies"),  and 
whose  names  were  returned  for  the  defence  of  the  Kingdom  temp.  Henry  VI.  The 
Heralds  seem  to  have  disliked  the  "  false  heraldry  "  of  this  coat.  In  MS.  E.  D.  N.  13. 
Coll.  Arm.,  and  at  the  subsequent  Visitations  of  1614  and  1C63,  I  find  it  blazoned 
Or,  a  chevron  azure  between  three  garbs  gules,  and  Dr.  Plot  so  blazons  it  in  his 
Table  XL,  dedicated  to  Sir  Walter  Wrottesley.  Possibly  the  true  blazon  should  be 
Gules,  a  chevron  counter -componee  argent  and  azure  between  three  garbs  or,  which 
is  given  by  Glover  in  his  "  Ordinary  "  as  the  coat  of  "  Baron,  temp.  Edw.  IV. ; "  but 
colour  upon  colour  was  not  so  very  uncommon  in  the  earlier  daj's  of  Armory.  With 
regard  to  the  third  quartering,  wherever  it  is  named  it  is  ascribed  to  Barrey,  and  it 
would  really  seem  that  it  was  invented  by  the  Heralds  for  the  heiress  whom  they  call 
by  that  name.  Shaw  (ii.,  205)  mentions  that  among  the  arms  formerly  in  the 
gallery  at  Wrottesley  was  a  shield  of  Wrottesley  impaling  "  Per  pale  or,  two  bars 
azure,  counterchanged,"  and  under  it  "  Sir  Walter  Wrottesley,  son  and  heir  of 
Hugh,  married  Jane,  daughter  and  heir  of  AVilliam  Barrery,  Esq." 


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Richard  Wrotesley  of  Wrotesley,=pDorothe,  da.  of  Edmund, 
an0  10  H.  7. j  Lo.  Dudley.* 

Walter  Wrotesley=pIsabell,  da.  of  John  Harecourt, 


of  Wrotesley 


sonne  of  Thomas. 


John  Wrotesley=pElizabeth,  da.  of  Thomas  Astley 


of  Wrotesley. 


of  Pateshull,  E6qr 


Walter  Wrotesley  of=i=Mary,  da.  of  Hugh         2.  Thomas.       4.  John. 
Wrotesley ;  nowe         Lea  of  Woodford  — 

livinge  1583.  in  Com.  Staford.  3.  Edward. 

Hugh  Wrotesley,  aetat.  10  annor'  1583. 


1.  Frauncis,  mar.  to  ...  .      2.  Dorothe,  mar.  to  Rich-     3.  Margaret. 
Brooke    of    Blacldand    in      arde  Whitle  [Whethill]  of  — 

the  parishe  of  Bobington.       Shepey  in  Com.  Leic.  4.  Elizabeth. 


Arms. — Quarter!}) — 1.  Argent,  a  chevron  engrailed  between  three  bugle- 
horns  sable,  stringed  and  garnished  or.  [Wyrley.]  2.  Sable, 
two  lions  passant  argent,  crowned  or,  each  holding  in  the  dexter 
paw  a  fleur-de-lis  azure.  [Heronvile.]  3.  Argent,  a  bend  sabte, 
between  in  chief  a  rose  and  in  base  a  fleur-de-lis,  both  gules. 
[Overton.]  4.  Sable,  a  /esse  between  three  sheldrakes  argent, 
beaked  and  legged  or.  [Sheldon.] 

Crest. — In  a  ducal  coronet  or,  two  pairs  of  wings  endorsed  proper. 

Motto. — A  pleasance. 

These  armes  thus  marshallede   by  Will'm  [Harvey],  Clarencielx, 

under  his  hande. 

Cornelius  de  Wirley  of  Honesworthe  in  Com.  Staford.=p 


John  Wirley  of=j=Anne,  da.  of  Will'm  Harpur  of  Rushall 


Hondesworth. 

A 


in  Com.  Stafforde. 


*  She  was  daughter  of  Sir  Edinuud  Sutton,  Knt.,  son  and  heir  of  John,  Lord 
Dudley. 


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Cornelius  de  Wirley  of=pClaire,  da.  and  heire  of  John  Sheldon  of 
Hondesworth.  Rowley  Regis. 


Will'ni  de=j=Elizabetk,  daughter  Marke 

Wirley  of     of  Richarde  Cave  de  Wirley, 

Hondes-     !  Com.  Northampton,  2  sonne. 
worth.        i  sister  to  Sr  Ambrose. 


Margaret,  mar.  to  Will'm 
Eton,  a  yonger  brother  of 
the  house  of  Etons  of 
Shropshr. 


Thomas  Wirley: 
of  Hondes- 
worthe,  nowe 
livinge  1583, 
Esqr,  Justice 
of  Peace. 


;Dorothe,  da. 
of  Hughe 
Harm  an, 
brother  to 
the  bishoppe 
of  Excester. 


Avery,  wife  to  Rob't 
Moseley  of  Bilston. 

Dorothe,  wife  to 
Thomas  Cumberford 
of  Cumberforde. 


Brigide,  mar.  to 
John  Breton  of 
Tamworthe. 

Anne,  mar.  to 
John  Hogettes. 


Elizabeth, 
wife  to 
Thomas 
Skrim  slier 
of  Johnson. 


Judith,  wife 
to  Will'm 
Lea  de 
Biggin  in 
Com.  Buck. 


Dorothe,  wife 
to  Roberte 
Robsante  of 
Ouldbery  in 
Com.  Salop. 


Martha. 


Catherin. 


Grace,  wife 
to  Ambrose 
Phillippes. 


John  Wirley ,: 
sonne  and 
heire. 


:Godith,  da.  of 
Humfrey 
PeytodeCom. 
Warwicke. 


Abraham  Wirley, 
2  sonne,  mar. 
Joane  da.  of  ... . 
Avenon. 


Thomas,  3  sonne. 
Edwarde,  4  sonne. 


Humfrey     Thomas,  2.       John,  4.      Richarde,  5.      Dorothe,  eldestc. 
Wirley,  —  —  — 

eldest  Will'm,  3.  Edward,  G.       Anne,  2. 

sonne. 

Tho.  Wyrley. 


gat-Meg  of  ParWtg. 

John  Yardley.=p.  ...  da.  of  ...  .  Marbury  of  Dadesbury. 


Oliver  Yardley  of  Yardley: 
in  Com.  Stafford. 


John  Yardley.=p.  ...  da.  of 
Thicknes. 

B 


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155 


John  Yardley  of= 
Yardley. 


•Margarette,  da.  and  heire  of  John  Yardley 
of  Killingworth  in  Com.  Warw. 


John  Yardley  of=j=Elizabeth,  da.  of  Will'm  Byrkes  de 


Yardleye. 


Com.  Stafforde. 


Will'm  Yardley  of  Yardley  in  Com.- 
Stafforde  ;  nowe  livinge  1583. 


(Elizabeth,  da.  of  Will'm  Moreton 
of  Moreton  in  Com.  Cestr. 


Anne,  eldeste  da.,  mar.  to  Rob't 
Meynell  of  Derbysheire. 


Ellene,  mar.  to  Eycharde  Bostoke 
of  ....  in  Com.  Cestr. 


Will'm,  eldest  sonne  ;     Raulf, 
mar.  Margery,  da.  of     sonne. 
John  Lawton  of  Law- 
ton  in  Com.  Cestr. 


John,*  eldest  sonne, 
Eetat.  4,  an'o  1583. 


John,  3   sonne,     George,  4  sonne. 
dwellinsre       in  — 


Fryday  Streat 
wthMrChannd- 
ler  in  London. 


Randoll,  5  sonne. 


Will'm,  2 
sonne. 


Eardeley  antiqnitus, 
nunc  Yardeley. 

Will'm  Erdleye. 


The  Arms  of  Yardley  or  Eardley,  as  given  in  the  Harl.  MS.  6128,  and  in  Lord 
Hatherton's  MS.,  are — Quarterly :  1  and  4,  Argent,  on  a  chevron  azure  three  garbs 
or,  a  canton  gules  charged  with  a  fret  gold ;  2  and  3,  Argent,  a  scythe  sable.  Crest : 
A  stag  courant  gules,  attired  and  unguled  or.  The  same  quartered  Arms,  with  the 
additional  quarterings  of  Calcott  (Argent,  a  fesse  gules  fretty  or  between  three 
cinquefoils  gules)  and  Dod  (Argent,  on  a  fesse  gules,  between  two  cottises  wavy 
sable,  three  crescents  or),  are  ascribed  in  the  Harl.  MS.  2187  to  the  Yardleys  of 
Calcott,  Co.  Chester,  who  are  stated  to  be  descended  from  Thomas,  brother  of  Oliver 
Yardley  of  Yardley,  living  temp.  Henry  VI.,  and  his  wife  Emilia,  daughter  and 
heiress  of  John  de  Calcott.  In  the  Stukeley  MS.  is  a  modern  trick  (no  doubt 
inserted  by  Eardley-Wilmot)  of  the  following  atchievement — Quarterly : 
1,  Yardley  or  Eardley ;  2,  Azure,  a  buck  courant  in  bend  in  the  dexter  chief  argent, 
pursued  by  two  greyhounds  also  in  bend  proper,  for  "Yardley  of  Kenilworth;" 
3,  Argent,  a  scythe  sable,  said  to  be  for  "  Thickness  of  Warwickshire ; "  4,  Argent, 
a  fesse  between  three  bugle-horns  stringed  sable,  for  "  Sutton  of  Cheshire."  Crest : 
as  above. 

No  Arms  appear  to  have  been  allowed  at  this  Visitation,  for,  as  will  be  seen 
from  the  list  of  those  summoned  (ante,  p.  10),  William  Yardley  was  "respited  to  Sir 
Ralph  Edgerton's."  As  to  the  Arms  themselves,  the  canton  is  the  coat  of  Audley, 
and  the  blue  chevron  and  garbs  seem  to  have  been  suggested  by  the  coat  of  Marbury. 


*  This  John  had  issue  Edward,  who  had  two  daughters  and  coheirs,  Elizabeth 
and  Alice ;  the  former  married  to  Robert  Wilmot,  whence  the  Eardley-Wilmots. 


(     156     ) 

NOTES 

ON   THE 

By  Rev.  F.  PARKER. 

The  De  Wastineys'  pedigree,  given  in  this  Visitation  of  1583,* 
on  the  authority  of  an  old  French  MS.  belonging  to  the  Gresleys,  traces 
the  family  in  the  main  line  from  Hardolph,  styled  de  Gastineys,  to 
Thomasine,  the  heiress  who  married  Sir  Nicholas  Gresley  :  no  notice  is 
taken  of  collateral  branches  ;  and  there  are  so  many  inaccuracies  in  the 
descent  that  it  is  thought  advisable  to  republish  the  pedigree  in  a  more 
correct  and  complete  form. 

If  we  may  judge  from  the  earliest  spelling  of  the  name  (de  "Gas- 
tineys") the  family  must  have  come  from  the  district  called  the 
"  Gastinois,"  lying  to  the  south  of  Paris  aud  east  of  Orleans  ;  thus 
much  is  certain,  that  the  first  of  the  English  line  was  a  follower  of 
Robert  de  Stafford  (al.  de  Toni)  and  enfeoffed  by  that  baron  both  in 
his  Lincolnshire  and  Staffordshire  estates.  The  generally  received 
tradition,  as  already  noticed,  would  recognise  this  ancestor  in  "  Ar- 
dulph,"  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Osgarthorp  under  de  Ferrers,  following 
the  French  MS.,  which  gives  him  plainly  the  surname  de  Gastineys  ; 
but  it  rests  on  no  sufficient  authority,  for,  while  the  long  connection  of 
the  de  Wastineys  with  Osgarthorp,  and  the  fact  that  (c.  1290  a.d.)  Sir 
Edmond  de  Wastineys  gave  the  name  of  Hardulph  to  his  eldest  son,  are 
sound  arguments  in  favour  of  some  relationship,  yet  Ardulph's  claim  to 
be  the  founder  of  the  family  would  need  to  be  established  on  much 
clearer  proof,  even  if  it  were  not  directly  contradicted  by  an  early  char- 
ter, which  traces  his  true  descent  as  follows:  " Bertmmus  de  Verdon 
omnibus  hominibus  Francis  et  Anglis,  etc.,  ....  conjirmasse  Roberto 
filio  Walteri  et  heredibus  quas  liabebit  de  Domind  Bind  uxore  ejus  filid 
Robertifitii  Hardulphi  Mam  terram  de  Angodesthorpe  (Osgarthoq)),"  etc. 
Robert  fitz  Hardulph  had  previously  received  these  lands  from  Bertram 
de  Verdon,  who  now  settles  them  on  Robert's  daughter  Dina,  her 
husband,  and  their  heirs.     A  subsequent  deed  of  partition  of  the  lands 

*   Vide  pp.  86  and  88. 


NOTES    ON    THE    PEDIGREE    OF    DE    WASTINEYS.  157 

of  Robert  fitz  Walter  and  Dina  between  their  coheiresses  shews  how 
Amphelis,  the  second  of  the  three  daughters  and  coheiresses,  in  turn 
conveyed  a  portion  of  them  by  marriage  to  Sir  Philip  de  Wastineys  : 
"  Philippo  vero  de  Wastineys  et  Amphelissa  pro  parte  sua  remanent 
tenementa  Robert!  et  Dina,  et  quod  Robertas  films  Walteri  tenuit  in 
Kirkebi,  etc.,  et  quod  dicta  Dina  tenuit  in  Angodesthorpe,^  etc.  Thus 
the  connection  between  the  two  families  is  proved  to  have  been  through 
the  female  line,  and,  however  wide  the  Leicestershire  lands  which  his 
great-granddaughter's  marriage  brought  into  her  husband's  name, 
Hardolph  can  have  no  claim  to  be  called  "  De  Gastineys." 

The  true  founder  of  the  family  was  Goisfridus  described  in  the 
Lincolnshire  "  Domesday  "  as  "  homo  Roberti  de  Stafford,"  and  who  held 
lands  in  Brune,  Carleby,  Braseburg,  and  possibly  in  Dentune,  besides 
the  Staffordshire  fees  at  Colton,  Tixall,  etc.,  being  all  portions  of  the 
great  de  Stafford  barony,  which  were  handed  down  for  some  centuries 
in  the  De  "Wastineys  line.  The  "  Liber  Niger  "  and  the  Fine  Roll  of 
Alan  de  Nevil,  which  appears  on  the  Pipe  Roll  of  13  H.  2,  compared, 
later  on,  with  the  "  Testa  de  Nevil "  of  both  counties,  the  Hundred 
Rolls  of  Lincolnshire,  and  other  evidence,  clearly  prove  that  these 
lands  were  possessed  by  Sir  William  and  Sir  Geoffrey  de  Wastineys, 
circa  1167-8  A.d.  Of  these  knights,  the  elder,  Sir  William,  could  not 
have  been  born  later  than  1120  a.d.,  since  his  sons,  together  with  Sir 
Geoffrey,  did  suit  in  de  Stafford's  court  between  1158  and  1165 
{v.  "  Staffs.  Coll.,"  vol.  2).  This  would  leave  but  little  time  for  re-feof- 
mentto  another  family;  whilst,  supposing  Goisfrid  to  have  died  without 
issue,  and  an  entirely  new  feofment  to  have  been  made,  it  is  all  but 
impossible  that  it  should  have  been  formed  from  those  identical  manors 
in  the  same  counties.  Mr.  Eyton's  authority  (as  General  Wrottesley 
suggests)  may  be  quoted  in  support  of  this  view :  "  That  when  a 
certain  tenant  is  found  holding  different  manors  of  one  feudal  lord,  and 
you  meet  with  the  same  manors  held  two  or  three  generations  after- 
wards by  a  tenant  under  the  same  feudal  superiors  and  by  the  same 
service,  the  second  tenant  is  the  undoubted  descendant  of  the  first." 
That  the  name  "Geoffrey"  continued  in  the  family  is  proved  by 
"  Liber  Niger,"  and  by  the  pedigree  of  the  Tixal  line. 

Who  succeeded  "  Goisfrid "  we  are  unable  to  decide  without  fur- 
ther evidence,  for  it  seems  most  probable  that  the  William  and  Geoffrey 
de  Wastineys  of  "  Liber  Niger  "  were  not  his  sons,  but  his  grandsons, 
and,  if  so,  one  generation  has  been  lost ;  that  Sir  Geoffrey  held  the 
Tixall  fee,  and  founded  that  branch  of  the  family  is  certain  from  Alan 
de  Nevill's  Roll.  Sir  William,  the  elder,  was  married,  we  believe,  to 
Alice  de  Acton,  and  had  certainly  two  sons,  William  and  Robert,  the 


158  NOTES    ON    THE    PEDIGREE    OF    DE    WASTINEYS. 

same  already  alluded  to  as  present  in  Robert  de  Stafford's  court,  and 
again  in  a  Lincolnshire  trial  of  3  R.  1  (1191  a.d.).  After  the  death 
of  Robert,  his  widow  Agatha  married  William  de  St.  Landa,  a  Lincoln- 
shire knight ;  a  dispute  arose  about  her  dower,  and  she  was  compelled 
to  call  her  son  Joceus  de  Wastineys  to  be  her  warrantor,  when  chal- 
lenged by  Sir  Philip  de  Wastineys  the  opponent.  The  suit  will  be 
found  given  in  the  Assize  Rolls,  and  is  valuable  for  the  help  which  it 
lends  us  to  understand  the  pedigree.  If  we  are  correct,  as  the  dates 
and  other  evidence  imply,  Sir  Philip  was  the  son  of  William  (2)  de 
Wastineys  by  Matthania,  sometimes  called  "  de  Col  ton,"  because  her 
dower  was  settled  on  that  fee,  vide  the  Assize  Rolls,  circa  1199  a.d., 
where  Sir  Philip  her  son  is  called  to  warrant  his  mother's  claim.  The 
same  records  have  preserved  a  suit  for  Colton  property  brought  by 
"Agnes"  and  "Anselm"  de  Wastineys,  who  were  very  probably 
younger  children  of  William  and  Matthania.  Amongst  other  trials  of 
this  date  is  a  claim  for  land  at  Osgarthorp  raised  against  Sir  Philip  and 
Amphelis  his  wife,  the  latter  being  represented  by  Elias  de  Cohnjch,  her 
attorney.  This  is  worth  mention,  as  another  link  connecting  the 
Staffordshire  and  Leicestershire  estates.  Joceus  de  Wastineys,  the  son 
of  Robert  and  Agatha,  sued  Sir  Philip  for  a  freehold  in  Brune  (Lincoln- 
shire), and  established  his  right ;  in  a  second  attempt  for  two  caru- 
cates  at  Carleby  he  was  less  successful,  but  we  learn  from  the  evidence 
that  he  had  been  brought  up  as  a  ward  of  Sir  Philip's.  In  7  King 
John  Sir  Philip  himself  is  plaintiff  against  John,  son  of  Stephen  de 
Acton,  for  two- thirds  of  a  fee  in  Acton  (Trussell  ?)  formerly  the  property 
of  Alice  his  grandmother.  The  case  was  referred  for  trial  by  the  great 
Assize,  though  it  had  been  tried  previously  when  Sir  Philip  was  in 
wardship  and  a  minor  ;  difficulties  and  delays  continued,  however,  to  be 
raised,  so  that  at  one  time  we  find  Geoffrey  de  Colton,  at  another  Wil- 
liam Bagot,  appearing  for  Sir  Philip,  and  the  ultimate  result  has  been 
lost  to  us  entirely,  for  the  Roll  of  Feb.  9,  1207,  remains  unfinished. 

Sir  Philip  de  Wasteneys  was  opposed  to  King  John,  but  came  in 
and  did  homage  (vide  the  Close  Rolls)  in  1216-17  a.d.  at  Mount  Sorrel. 
The  Sheriffs  of  Lincolnshire,  Leicestershire,  and  Staffordshire  are  there- 
fore ordered  to  give  him  seizin  of  his  lands.  The  same  Rolls  of  1219 
contain  the  Royal  Warrant  to  the  Sheriffs  of  the  two  former  counties, 
certifying  them  that  Sir  William  (3)  de  Wasteneys,  Sir  Philip's  son 
and  heir,  is  authorized  to  represent  his  father  in  all  matters  concerning 
those  counties  and  wapentakes,  during  Sir  Philip's  absence  in  Scotland 
on  his  own  business.  A  single  entry  in  the  Assize  Roll  of  1228  A.D. 
gives  some  insight  into  the  state  of  public  affairs,  and  suggests  no 
doubt  the  right   explanation  of  Sir  Philip's   sudden  recovery  of  his 


NOTES  ON  THE  PEDIGREE  OF  DE  WASTINETS.       159 

lands  and  his  reconciliation  with  the  King,  already  noticed.  It  comes 
out  incidentally,  when  William  de  Wastineys  sues  John  le  Mareschal 
for  depriving  him  unjustly  of  certain  Colton  lands  which  his  father  had 
made  over  to  him  as  part  of  his  maintenance.  Until  this  Assize  Roll 
came  to  light  it  was  impossible  to  account  for  any"Le  Mareschal" 
interest  in  Colton  ;  but  the  whole  is  easily  understood  when  we  learn 
that  Sir  Philip  had  been  captured  at  Mount  Sorrel,  and  carried  prisoner 
to  Nottingham,  where  John  le  Mareschal  had  forced  him  to  sign  a  sur- 
render of  the  lands  in  question.  The  "  Le  Mareschal "  interest  was 
certainly  paramount  at  Court  until  the  date  of  the  Regent  Pembroke's 
death  in  1219  a.d.,  whilst  the  Royal  party  had  so  much  the  upper  hand 
in  that  part  of  Lincolnshire  where  the  de  Wastineys  property  chiefly 
lay,  that  Sir  Philip's  submission  is  easily  understood,  even  if  this  sur- 
render of  land  were  not,  as  is  most  probable,  the  ransom  which  opened 
his  prison-door.  Sir  Philip's  death  must  have  occurred  somewhere 
between  1228  and  1235  a.d.  ;  his  wife  Amphelis  died,  we  should  con- 
clude, before  1224,  since  her  son,  Sir  William,  presented  in  that  year  to 
the  living  of  Osgarthorp,  a  part  of  his  mother's  estate,  while  Sir  Philip 
was  yet  alive. 

Sir  William  de  Wasteneys  (3)  is  returned  in  1235  A.d.  (vide 
"  Testa  de  Nevil  ")  as  holding  lands  in  Lincolnshire  of  Hugh  Wake, 
Hugh  holding  of  Harvey  Bagot  by  interpolated  tenure,  and  Harvey  of 
the  King  in  capite  of  old  feofment.  Five  years  later  the  Crown  gave 
Sir  William  the  right  to  hold  a  weekly  market  every  Friday  at  his 
Colton  Manor.  The  Harl.  MS.,  B.  M.,  No.  506,  mentions  some  grants  of 
his  in  the  same  place,  but  they  are  of  local  rather  than  general  import- 
ance. Sir  William's  wife  is  called  Margaret  in  the  pedigrees,  on  what 
ground  we  have  not  been  able  to  discover — probably  that  of  some  early 
charter  ;  by  her  we  believe  that  he  left  two  sons,  both  bearing  their 
father's  name  "  William,"  though  the  younger  is  invariably  distinguished 
as  Sir  William  "  le  Jovene."  It  was  a  practice  common  enough  in 
early  times  to  give  the  same  Christian  name  to  two  brothers ;  indeed, 
an  instance  might  be  quoted  from  the  Tixall  branch  of  this  very  family, 
where  the  names  of  Roger  de  Wastineys  the  elder,  and  Roger  the 
younger,  his  brother,  occur  in  the  same  deed  of  entail.  Few  difficulties, 
however,  could  arise  to  hinder  more  effectually  the  exact  unravelling  of 
a  pedigree,  in  its  early  stage,  than  this  recurrence  of  the  same  Christian 
name  ;  for,  while  the  general  descent  remains  beyond  dispute,  the  dates 
of  succession  in  each  individual  case  are  left  uncertain.  After  carefully 
reviewing  the  whole  question,  we  should  conclude  that  the  William  de 
Wastineys  who,  with  Stephen  his  brother,  witnessed  a  Leicestershire 
deed  of  Agnes  de  Gresley,  Prioress  of  Grace  Dieu,  in  1242  a.d.,  was  the 


160  NOTES    ON    THE    PEDIGREE    OP    DE    WASTINETS. 

son  of  Sir  William  (3)  and  grandson  of  Sir  Philip.  The  Stephen  here 
mentioned  must  be  the  same  who  was  admitted  (by  the  Eoyal  Warrant  to 
Philip  Marmyun  and  William  Bagod),A.D.  1267,  into  the  King's  peace 
on  giving  security  for  good  behaviour,  and  who  gave  further  proof  sub- 
sequently of  his  turbulent  character,  when  sent  by  his  brother  William 
in  1271  to  Emma  Bagot's  house  in  Hacunby.  It  appears  from  the 
Hundred  Rolls  that  the  band  under  his  command,  not  satisfied  with 
robbing  her  of  property  valued  at  100s.,  carried  off  Simon  Bagot  her 
brother  and  two  Hoyland  men  prisoners.  The  latter  they  beheaded 
summarily  in  the  Park  at  Brune,  whilst  Simon  was  kept  in  captivity 
for  six  years,  until  Emma  Bagot  paid  Sir  William  twenty  marcs  for  his 
release  :  a  strange  picture  of  the  lawlessness  of  those  days.  Sir  William 
de  Wasteneys  was  himself  Sheriff  of  Lincolnshire  at  the  time.  The  fact 
that,  both  in  1242  and  1271,  Stephen  is  mentioned,  with  Sir  William  his 
brother,  who  was  certainly  living  in  1276  A.D.,  when  the  suit  appears  in 
the  Lincolnshire  Hundred  Rolls,  makes  it  very  unlikely  that  these  could 
be  Sir  Philip's  sons,  or  that  Sir  William,  who  would  then  be  at  the 
least  seventy  years  of  age,  was  the  active  and  tyrannical  Sheriff  here 
represented.  On  these  grounds  we  prefer  to  identify  the  William  and 
Stephen  in  question  with  Sir  Philip's  grandsons  and  the  sons  of 
William  (3)  de  Wastineys.  On  any  other  supposition  there  must  have 
been  a  William  and  Stephen  in  each  generation,  which  is  not  at  all 
probable.* 

The  William  de  Wastineys  who  signed  a  Colton  grant  together 
with  William,  styled  the  young  Lord  (le  Jovene),  is  doubtless  the  same 
who  was  fourth  of  his  name,  and  whom  we  find  obtaining  (in  1264)  the 
right  of  free  warren  over  the  Lincolnshire,  Staffordshire,  and  Leicester- 
shire lands.  The  Colton  estate  of  the  family  that  same  year  is  valued 
at  a  knight's  fee,  and  here  (as  we  gather  from  the  Assize  Roll  1263) 
Sir  William  "  le  Jovene  "  chiefly  resided.  In  1277  the  Post  M.  Inqui- 
sitions prove  that  he  shared  certain  rights  in  Colton  with  William  le 
Mareschal  lately  deceased.  Probably  he  did  not  live  beyond  1281,  for 
the  next  year  John  de  Wasteneys  was  the  joint  Lord  with  John  de 
Mareschal  of  the  same  land.  Two  daughters,  Alice  and  Joan,  besides 
a  son  William,  certainly  survived  him  ;  their  names  occur  first  in  the 
Roll  as  paying  half-marc  to  have  an  assize.  The  son  there  can  be 
little  question  is  the  same  William  whom  we  meet  again  in  1299  and 
1317  a.d.  as  William  "le  younge  Louerd,"  or  Le  Lonerd  de  "  Luttle- 
hay,"  and  who  left  a  son  called  Robert,  or  Robert  de  "  Luttlehay," 
mentioned  in  1322. 

*  The  whole  question  is  obscure,  and  in  the  absence  of  better  evidence  must 
remain  an  open  one. 


NOTES    ON   THE    PEDIGREE    OF   DE    WASTINEYS.  161 

To  recur  now  to  the  elder  line,  i.e.  to  the  children  of  Sir  "William,  the 
Sheriff  of  Lincolnshire.  Besides  John,  the  heir,  there  was  a  son  Regi- 
nald, whose  name  occurs  in  1308,  and  again  in  1322  as  the  father  of 
another  William  {v.  Patent  Rolls).  "We  believe  that  the  well-known 
Sir  Edmond  de  "Wastineys,  who  founded  the  Nottinghamshire  branch 
of  the  family,  was  probably  another  of  Sir  "William's  sons.  Sir  John  de 
"Wastineys  married  Isabella  Hay  of  Acton  in  Yorkshire  ;  like  his  father, 
he  too  claimed  free  warren  over  the  Colton  estate  in  1293  A.D.,  and 
must  have  been  residing  there  at  that  time,  for,  together  with  Edmond 
de  "Wastineys,  he  witnessed  a  Colton  deed  of  gift.  Sir  John  served 
repeatedly  on  the  Great  Assize,  sometimes  with  another  John  de  "Wasti- 
neys (possibly  a  younger  brother,  but  that  is  uncertain)  ;  he  acted  also 
as  a  juror  for  the  perambulations  of  Cannock  and  Kinver  Forests,  and 
was  evidently  in  possession  of  the  Leicestershire  property  at  Osgar- 
thorpe,  Threngeston,  etc. — witness  an  action  which  he  brought  against 
the  inhabitants  of  Tonge  and  Bredon  for  sending  their  swine  to  feed  in 
a  certain  wood,  called  "Wastenays  Wood,  situated  at  Osgarthorpe 
(Abbrev.  Placit.  1304).  As  holding  two  knights'  fees  in  Lincoln- 
shire he  was  summoned  to  attend  the  King  against  the  Scotch,  the 
muster  being  appointed  at  Carlisle.  The  arms  of  his  wife's  family  are 
described  to  be — "  Or,  on  a  chief  gules  two  mullets  argent." 

Besides  two  daughters — Constance,  named  in  a  deed  of  25  Edward 
III.,  and  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Sir  John  Cornwall,  Kt. — Sir  John  left  three 
sons  :  Sir  William  (5),  married  to  Joan  Bret,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Bret 
of  Norfolk,  and  widow  of  Adam  de  Cailley  ;  (2)  Sir  Philip,  who,  by 
Willielma  his  wife,  was  father  of  the  Thomas  de  Wastineys  mentioned 
on  more  than  one  occasion  in  the  Gresley  Chartulary  (1324  and  1342 
a.d.)  ;  and  (3)  John,  Rector  of  Cranwicke  (Norfolk),  a  living  which 
formed  part  of  his  sister-in-law's  dowry  in  right  of  her  former  husband 
Sir  Adam  de  Cailley. 

Sir  William  (5),  the  next  representative  of  the  de  Wasteneys,  in- 
herited a  greater  estate  and  influence  in  five  different  counties  ;  person- 
ally too  he  was  of  an  active,  enterprising  character.  We  find  him 
serving  in  Scotland  under  Edward  I.,  and  not  unknown  at  the  Court  of 
Edward  II.,  if  we  may  judge  from  the  notice  in  the  "  Collectanea  Topo- 
graphica  "  of  the  knights  who  tilted  at  the  great  Stepney  tournament, 
a.d.  1309,  where  he  sided  with  the  party  of  the  Earl  of  Lancaster. 
Proof  may  be  seen  in  the  Parliamentary  Writs  that  in  1332  he  was 
summoned  to  assist  the  Sheriff  of  Lincoln  in  keeping  the  peace,  and  to 
appear  at  Burton-on-Trent  prepared  to  march  on  the  King's  service. 

The  following  year  he  was  ordered  to  raise   2000  soldiers  in  the 

M 


162       NOTES  ON  THE  PEDIGREE  OF  DE  WASTINEYS. 

county  of  Lincoln  (vide  the  Memorandums  of  Burghersh,  Bishop  of 
Lincoln,  and  the  Parliamentary  Writs).  Sir  William  was  present  at 
the  Lincoln  election  in  1334,  and  was  himself  returned  to  the  Parlia- 
ment at  Westminster.  In  1325  he  was  sent  by  Lord  Wake  in  com- 
mand of  a  body  of  troops  across  the  seas ;  but  the  climate  of  Gascony 
brought  on  a  disease,  that  proved  rapidly  fatal,  not  long  after  his  return 
to  England.  He  left  a  numerous  family  of  three  sons  and  eight 
daughters  (vide  G-resley  Chartulary).  The  arms  of  Joan  Bret  his 
wife  are — "Argent,  a  bend  gules,  billetee  of  the  field." 

Sir  Thomas  de  Wastineys,  the  eldest  son  and  heir  of  Sir  William  (5), 
was  not  yet  of  age  when  his  father  died,  whereby  a  difficulty  at  once 
arose  touching  his  wardship  and  marriage,  the  latter  being  claimed  by 
Lord  Stafford,  of  whom  he  held  the  manor  of  Colton. 

How  this  claim  was  adjusted  we  are  now  unable  to  say  :  Sir  Thomas 
certainly  appealed  to  Lord  Wake,  his  father's  patron,  to  interfere  ;  and 
it  can  be  proved  that  his  marriage  with  Joanna,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Toly  of  Wymondham,  soon  took  place,    because   their  names  occur 
together  in  a  Colton  deed  of  1339  a.d.     Sir  Thomas  was  quite  as  dis- 
tinguished a  soldier  as  his  father;  in  1834  we  find  him  taking  out 
letters  of  protection  whilst  with  the  King  in  Scotland ;  and  again  in 
1343,  when  about  to  pass  into  France  among  the  retinue  of  the  War- 
wickshire Baron  Nicholas    de  Cantilupe ;  three   years    later  he  was 
serving  in  France  under  Thomas  de  Beauchamp,  Earl  of  Warwick.     It 
is  therefore  all  but  certain  that  he  fought  at  Cressy  ;  indeed,  the  very 
next  year  he  is  pardoned  for  all  offences  he  may  have  committed  on 
the   ground   of   his   good  service   against   the    French.     The   writ, 
which  is  dated  at  Calais,  Septbr  4th  20  Edward  III.,  implies  that  he 
shared  likewise  in  the  memorable  siege.     Sir  Thomas  was  involved  in 
many  law-suits  ;  down  to  the  year  1364  his  name  is  continually  recur- 
ring in  the  Patent  and  Fine  Polls,  etc.     His  brother,  John  de  Waste- 
neys,  is  mentioned  in  a  grant  dated  1346  a.d.     The  other  brother  may 
(we  believe)  be  identified  with  the  Stephen  de  Wastineys  of  Brassing- 
bury  given  in  the  Gresley  Chartulary.     Isabella,  who  married  Robert  de 
Jortz,  Kt.  (1325  a.d.),  is  the  only  one  of  his  eight  sisters  whose  name  has 
come  down  to  us,  nor  can  we  in  her  case  speak  with  absolute  certainty. 
It  is  remarkable  that  Sir  Thomas's  three  sons,  William,  John,  and 
Thomas,  died  childless,  thereby  defeating  all  their  uncle  John's  efforts 
to  perpetuate  the  family  greatness.     The  estates  passed  to  Thomasine 
their  sister,  and  the  ancient  family  of  de  Wasteneys  died  out  in  the 
main  line. 


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INDEX  TO  NAMES. 


Thick  figures  denote  Pedigrees ;  Italic  figures,  Arms. 

Names  occurring  more  than  once  on  the  same  page  appear  only  once  in  the  Index. 
Names  in  the  Text  are  for  the  most  part  indexed  as  properly  spelt;  "de"  is  left  out 
Brackets  (    )  are  Maiden  Names ;  =  signifies  "married  to  a." 


Abell,  George,  4. 

Abington,  Jane=Stamford,  137. 

Acton,  60. 

Alice=Wastneys,  157. 

Isahel=Blount,  135. 

Isabel=Broughton,  60,  135. 

Joyce=Barnaby,  135. 

Stephen,  158. 

Walter,  60,  135. 
Adderley,  29,  33. 

Alice=Conyers,  33. 

Dorothy,  33. 

Elizabeth=Peverell,  33. 

Ellen,  33. 

Ellen  (Gilbert),  33. 

George,  33. 

Grace,  33. 

Humfrey,  33. 

Jane  (Thirkell),  128. 

Joane  (Thirkell),  33. 

Joane  (Warner),  33. 

Joane=Smith,  33. 

John,  33. 

Margaret  (Bagot),  33,  40. 

Mary,  33. 

Phelice  (Milward),  33. 

Ralph,  5,  29,  33,  40,  128. 

Richard,  33. 

Thomas,  33,  128. 

Walter,  33. 

William,  33. 

(Capell),  33. 

(North),  33. 

Agard,  27. 

Catherine=Brook,  56,  57,  58. 

Clement,  57,  58. 

George,  5. 

Humfrey,  5. 

William,  5. 
Alcock,  Alice=Leigh,  101. 
Allen,  Anne,  123. 

Charles,  123. 


Allen — continued. 

Christopher,  123. 

Dorothy,  123. 

Eleanor=Coyney,  66. 

Elizabeth,  123. 

Ethelreda  (Paget),  123. 

Prances,  123. 

Henry,  123. 

John,  123. 

Mary,  123. 

Thomas,  123. 

William,  66,  123. 

=Bilston,  widow,  124. 

=Petit,  124. 

Allesley,  103. 

Geoffrey,  105. 

=Cocke,  105. 

Allyn, =Cholmeley,  63. 

Alphegh,  93. 

Ampe,  John,  28. 

Amphelissa,  da.  of  Robert  fitz  Walter,  157. 

Andrews,  Joan  (Corbett),  65. 

John,  65. 
Anneford,  Alice=Bowles,  104. 
Appleby,  Henry,  21. 
Arblaster,  34,  34. 

Alice,  34. 

Catherine  (Laynham),  34. 

Edmund,  34. 

Prances=Callangwood,  34. 

George,  34. 

Humfrey,  34. 

Jane=Holland,  34. 

John,  34. 

Maud=Bagot,  34,  40. 

Michael,  34. 

Richard,  34,  40. 

Thomas,  5,  34,  40. 

(Martyn),  34. 

Arden,  5. 

Elizabeth=Leveson,  107. 

Simon,  5,  19. 


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THE   VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,   A.D.    1583. 


Arderne,  22,  57. 

Isabel=Wrottesley,  152. 

John,  52,  57,  152. 

Maud,  52. 

Maud  (Pilkington),  57. 

Maud  (Stafford),  51,  57. 

Maud=Stauley,  52,  57. 

Thomas,  22,  51,  57. 
Askby,  Joyce  (Salway),  51. 

William,  51. 
Ashenhurst,  35,  35. 

Alice  (Belott),  35. 

Anne,  35. 

Anne=Skerard,  35. 

Catherine  (Okeover),  35. 

Dorotky=Eothewall,  35. 

Elizabeth  (Beard),  35. 

Elizabeth=Lownes,  35. 

Grace=Manyfold,  35. 

Jane  (Twyford),  35. 

Joan=Hill,  35. 

John,  6,  15,  35. 

Joyce  (Miller),  35. 

Joyce=Bulkeley,  35. 

Lawrence,  35. 

Margaret=Bayner,  35. 

Margery  (Collyer),  35. 

Ealph,  35. 

Thomas,  35. 

William,  35. 
Ashfield,  John,  108. 

Joyce=Leveson,  108. 
Aspland,  Mary=Noel,  117. 
Aspley  or  Astley,  John,  3. 
Astley,  30,  36,  94. 

Alice,  49. 

Anthony,  147. 

Bridget  (Whitgreave),  147. 

Catherine  (Willoughby),  36. 

Dorothy  (Giffard),  36,  83. 

Drue,  134. 

Elizabeth  (Beauchamp),  36. 

Elizabeth  (Harcourt),  36,  94. 

Elizabeth=Wrottesley,  36,  153. 

Gilbert,  11,  18,  30,  36,  39,  83. 

Giles,  49. 

Henry,  134. 

Hugh,  36. 

Jane=Bagot,  36,  40. 

Joan  (Gresley),  36. 

Joan  (Oteley),  36. 

Joan=Grey  de  Euthen,  36. 

John,  3,  16,  36. 

Joyce=Whitgreave,  147. 

Margaret  (Butler),  36. 

Margaret  (Stamford),  134. 

Margery  (Aston),  36,  39. 

Mary,  134. 

Mary  (Talbot),  36. 

Eichard,  36,  40,  134. 

Sibilla=Bassett,  49. 


Astley — continued. 

Thomas,  36,  94,  147,  153. 

Walter,  36. 

William,  36. 
Aston,  23,  26,  37,  37, 145,  146. 

Alice  (Meynell),  44. 

Alice= Welles,  145. 

Anne,  38. 

Anne  (Lucy),  39. 

Anthony,  39. 

Catherine,  39. 

Catherine=Broughton,  59,  60. 

Catherine=Gresley,  38,  85,  89. 

Catherine=Okeover,  121. 

Cecilia=Welles,  145. 

Devereux,  39. 

Edward,  8,  39,  85,  89,  92,  121. 

Eleanor=Peyto,  39. 

Ellen,  38. 

Elizabeth,  39. 

Elizabeth  (Delves),  37. 

Elizabeth  (Lee),  37. 

Elizabeth  (Leveson),  39. 

Elizabeth=Bassett,  38,  47. 

Erances=Nedeham,  38. 

Hastings,  39. 

Isabel,  38,  50. 

Isabel=Bagot,  37,  40. 

Isabel=Okeover,  38. 

Jane  (Draycott),  37. 

Jane=Bowles,  38. 

Jane=Crompton,  39. 

Joan,  37. 

Joan  (Brereton),  37. 

Joan  (Littleton),  109. 

Joan  alias  Elena  (Littleton),  38. 

John,  37,  38,  47,  59,  109,  145. 

Joyce  (Erevill),  37. 

Leonard,  39. 

Margaret=Egerton,  142. 

Margaret=Tyrrell,  142. 

Margery=Astley,  36,  39. 

Mary,  39. 

Mary  (Spencer),  39. 

Mary  (Vernon),  38. 

Mary=Harcourt,  38,  92. 

Parnell=Biddulph,  37. 

Petronill=Biddulph,  50. 

Eichard,  37,  39,  145. 

Eobert,  37,  39,  40,  50,  121. 

Eoger,  23,  37. 

Thomas,  24,  37,  71. 

Walter,  8,  18,  26,  36,  39. 

William,  38,  39. 

(Borough),  39. 

(Clerk),  39. 

(Creswell),  39. 

(Dalyson),  39. 

=;Curzon,  38. 

Atcombe,  Alice,  134. 

Anne,  134. 


INDEX. 


165 


Atcornbe — continued. 

Edmund,  134. 

Elizabeth,  134. 

Elizabeth  (Stamford),  134. 

=Dickens,  134. 

Atlowe,  120,  146. 
Audley,  22,  23,  26,  155. 

jadis,  23. 

Walter,  22. 
Avenon,  Joan=Wyrley,  154. 
Aynion,  Margery=Cholmeley,  63. 

Morris,  63. 

Babington,  Anthony,  136. 

Edith  (Eitzherbert),  75. 

Elizabeth=Okeover,  121. 

Ellen  (Whitgreave),  147. 

Henry,  78. 

John,  147. 

Joyce  (Stamford),  136. 

Margery=Eitzherbert,  72,  74. 

Mary  (Darcy),  78. 

Matthew,  136. 

Robert,  72,  74. 

Thomas,  75,  121. 

(Stanley),  136. 

Badger,  Robert,  8, 14. 
Badley,  Anne  (Unwin),  143. 

John,  55. 

Margaret=Brett,  55. 

Thomas,  143. 
Baginholde,  see  Bagnall. 
Bagnall,  26. 

Elizabeth  (Whitgreave),  147. 

Margaret=Bartram,  43. 

Nicholas,  43. 

Ralph,  18,  43,  147. 

Randall,  29. 

= Brett,  55. 

Bagot,  22,  27,  39,  39. 
Bagot  (Stafford),  27. 

Aleonora=Carwardine,  40. 

Anne  (Josceline),  40. 

Anne  (Montgomery),  40. 

Anne=Broughton,  41. 

Anne=Kniveton,  40. 

Anthony,  41. 

Beatrix  (Villiers),  39. 

Dorothy,  41. 

Emma,  160. 

Emma  (Kniveton),  40. 

Harvey,  159. 

Isabella  (Aston),  37,  40. 

Isabella  (Curzon),  40. 

Isabella=Dunholme,  40. 

James,  128. 

Jane  (Astley),  36,  40. 

Jane=Brereton,  40. 

Jane=Curzon,  40. 

Jane=Thirkell,  128. 

John,  22,\Z1,  39,  40,  71. 


Bagot — continued. 

Letitia,  41. 

Lewis,  34,  37,  40. 

Margaret,  41. 

Margaret  (Vernon),  40. 

Margaret=Adderley,  33,  40. 

Margaret=Bradbome,  40. 

Margaret=Davenport,  40. 

Mary  (Saunders),  40. 

Maud=Arblaster,  34,  40. 

Ralph,  39. 

Richard,  8,  17,  36,  37,  40. 

Simon,  160. 

Stephen,  40. 

Thomas,  33,  36,  37,  40. 

Walter,  41. 

William,  158,  160. 

(Boteler),  40. 

=Kniveton,  40. 

Bagshawe,  41,  41. 

Edward,  41. 

Elizabeth,  41. 

Elizabeth  (Ruggeley),  41. 

George,  28. 

Joan  (Linaker),  41. 

Nazareth,  41. 

Nicholas,  5,  41. 

Osmond,  41. 

Robert,  41. 

Thomas,  41. 

William,  41. 

(Browne),  41. 

Bakepuz,  87. 

Elizabeth=Gresley,  86,  87. 

John,  86,  87. 
Bambury,  Catherine  (Stamford),  134. 

Edward,  134. 

John,  134. 
Banaster,  Mary=Hawkes,  97. 

Roger,  97. 
Barantine,  93. 

Erancis,  92. 

Margaret=Harcourt,  92. 

William,  92. 
Barber,  Anne=Thickness,  139. 

Edward,  8,  14,  17. 

Robert,  139. 
Barford,  Joyce  (Everard),  70. 

Thomas,  70. 
Barker,  Alice=Leigh,  101. 

Catherine=Vise,  145. 

John,  101,  145. 
Barlow,  Dorothy  (Coyney),  66. 

Dorothy=Foljambe,  77. 

James,  66. 

Maud  (Eitzherbert),  73. 
Barnaby,  Joyce  (Acton),  135. 

Richard,  135. 

Thomas,  135. 
Barnes,  Mary=Unwin,  143. 
Barnesley,  James,  16. 


166 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Baron,  152. 

Jane=Wrottesley,  152. 

William,  152. 
Barrery,  Joan=Wrottesley,  152. 

William,  152. 
Barrett,  Fulke,  61. 

=Broughton,  61. 

Barrey,  152. 

Jane=Wrottesley,  152. 
Bartram,  42,  42. 

Agnes,  43. 

Agnes  (West),  43. 

Agnes  (Lawton),  43. 

Edward,  43. 

Elizabeth  (Leigh),  43. 

Ellen=Broughton,  61. 

Eve,  42. 

Eve  (Globard),  43. 

George,  8,  42, 43. 

Grace,  43. 

Hugh,  43. 

Helen,  43. 

Henry,  42. 

James,  43. 

Joan,  43. 

Joan  (Cokenage),  42. 

John,  42,  43. 

Margaret,  43. 

Margaret  (Bagnall),  43. 

Nicholas,  42. 

Philippa,  42. 

Randall,  43. 

Richard,  43. 

Robert,  43. 

Thomas,  43. 

Warburgh,  43. 

Warburgh  (Lawton),  43. 

William,  42,  43. 
Basford,  John,  6,  15. 
Bassett,  22,  44,  45,  45,  46,  47,  47, 
48,  49, 152. 

Alice  (Dryby),  49. 

Alice=Moton,  49. 

Anne  (Cokayne),  45,  46. 

Catherine=Fairfax,  49. 

Catherine=Sutton,  49. 

Cecilia=Erdeswick,  46. 

Dorothy,  45. 

Dorothy=Whorwood,  149,  150. 

Edmund,  46,  48,  49. 

Edward,  5,  19,  45,  49. 

Eleanor  (Littleton),  45. 

Elizabeth  (Aston),  38,  47. 

Elizabeth  (Colville),  49. 

Elizabeth  (Dunham),  49,  106. 

Elizabeth  (Fitzherbert),  45,  46,  76. 

Elizabeth  (Meverell),  45,  46. 

Elizabeth=Grey,  49. 

Ellen  (Cotes),  45. 

Ellen  (Egerton),  47. 

Ellen  (Montgomery),  47. 


Bassett — continued. 

Francis,  45. 

Isabel  (Ridware),  45. 

Isabel  (Boteler),  49. 

Joan,  46. 

Joan  (Braylesford),  48. 

Joan  (Byron),  38,  46. 

Joan=Shirley,  48. 

Joan=Wrottesley,  152. 

John,  46,  47,  4S,  49,  71. 

Margaret  (Dethick),  44,  46. 

Margaret=Copwood,  45. 

Margaret=Egerton,  47. 

Margery  (Meringe),-49. 

Maud  (Beke),  46,  48. 

Maud=Okeover,  45,  121. 

Nicholas,  47. 

Osbert,  47. 

Ralph,  46,  47,  48,  49. 

Richard,  48,  49,  106,  110. 

Robert,  47,  48,  49,  110. 

Roger,  152. 

Sibilla  (Astley),  49. 

Simon,  47,  49. 

Thomas,  45,  48,  49, 150. 

William,  6,  19,  38,  44,  45,  46,  47, 
48,  49,  76, 110, 121. 

(Burgh),  49. 

(Chetwind),  45. 

(Lisieux),  48. 

=Powtrell,  49. 

Bate,  115. 

Agnes=Moseley,  115. 

John,  115. 

(Colman),  115. 

Baylie,  William,  28. 

Beard,  Elizabeth=Ashenhurst,  35. 

William,  35. 
Beauchamp,  116. 

Elizabeth,  36. 

Elizabeth=Astley,  36. 

Elizabeth=Nevil,  116. 

Guy,  Earl  of  Warwick,  36. 

Richard,  Earl  of  Warwick,  116. 

Tbomas,  Earl  of  Warwick,  36,  162. 
Bedle,  John,  14. 
Beke,  24,  45. 

Alice,  46. 

de  Eresby,  93. 

Maud=Bassett,  46,  48. 

Thomas,  24,  46. 
Bellew,  93,  103. 
Bellott,  Alice=Ashenhurst,  35. 

John,  35. 

Bennett, ,  23. 

Bentley,  23. 

Walter,  23. 

William,  23,  72. 
Beresford,  8. 

Adam,  70. 

Joan=Ferne,  70. 


INDEX. 


167 


Beresford — continued. 

Sampson,  S. 
Berington,  Elizabeth  (Bowyer),  54. 

Joan  (Venables),  54. 

Thomas,  54. 

William,  54. 
Berkeley,  116. 

=Leigh,  102. 

Berners,  Lord,  John  Bourchier,  116. 

Berwicke,  John,  2. 

Beverley,  Jane  (Broughton),  60. 

Richard,  60. 
Biddulph,  SO,  50. 

Agnes=Brownson,  50. 

Bridget,  51. 

Catherine,  51. 

Catherine=Calverley,  51. 

Cicely  (Overton),  50. 

Dorothy,  51. 

Elizabeth=Leigh,  51. 

Ellen  (Greenway),  50. 

Francis,  8,  17,  51,  83,  126. 

Henry,  50. 

Isabel=Giffard,  51,  83. 

John,  8,  50,  51. 

Joyce=Porter,  51. 

Margaret  (Salway),  51. 

Mary=Eudyard,  51,  126. 

Parnell  (Aston),  37. 

Petronill  (Aston),  50. 

Randall,  50. 

Richard,  37,  50,  51. 

Robert,  50. 

Roger,  50. 

Simon  (?),  28. 

Thomas,  50. 

Ursula,  51. 

William,  50. 
Billett,  John,  143. 

Ursula=TJnwin,  143. 
Bilston,  Geoffrey,  124. 

(Allen),  124. 

Bird,  John,  28. 

Nicholas,  28. 
Birmingham,  Fulke,  107. 

Joyce=Leveson,  107. 
Biron,  see  Byron. 
Blackborne,  William,  28. 
Blithe,  115. 

Margaret=Moseley,  115. 

Mary=Fowler,  79. 

Thomas,  115. 
Blithfield,  39. 
Blore,  Edmond,  28. 
Blount,  30. 

Catherine  (Grey),  136. 

Catherine  (Stamford),  136. 

Edmund,  30. 

Eleanor=Dickens,  67. 

Ellen  (Byron),  38. 

Henry,  136. 


Blount — continued . 

Isabel  (Acton),  135. 

John,  28. 

Margery=Stamford,  136. 

Thomas,  136. 

Walter,  38,  135,  136. 

=Oteley,  36. 

Bloyde,  see  Lloyd. 

Bodeley,  Elizabeth=Tyrrell,  141. 

Thomas,  141. 
Boffrey,  25. 

John,  25. 
Boghey,  113. 

Alice=Mainwaring,  113. 

Robert,  113. 

Bohe, (Harcourt),  95. 

Bold,  Roger,  72. 
Bolinghull,  Alice=King,  68. 

John,  68. 

Margery,  68. 

Ralph,  68. 

Richard,  68. 
Bonington,  Joan=Wells,  145. 

William,  145. 
Booth,  Alice=Fitzherbert,  72,  74. 

Henry,  72,  74. 

John,  38. 

Margery=Byron,  38. 
Borough,  Edward,  39. 

Henry,  39. 

John,  39. 

Walter,  39. 

=Aston,  39. 

Bostock,  Ellen  (Yardley),  155. 

Richard,  155. 
Boteler,  Isabel=Bassett,  49. 

Thomas,  40. 

William,  49. 

=Bagot,  40. 

Botreux,  Anne=Littleton,  109. 

John,  109. 

Bough, =Vise,  144. 

Bourchier,  Jane=Neville,  116. 

John,  Lord  Berners,  116. 
Bourne,  Eleanor  (Brett),  55. 

John,  55. 

Mary  (Unwin),  143.     ■ 

William,  143. 
Bowes,  5, 21,  51. 

Anne  (Huddleston),  53. 

George,  82. 

Jane  (Talbot),  82. 

John,  5,  20,  21,  53. 

Richard,  53. 

(Kebell),  53. 

Bowett,  103. 

Elizabeth  (Zouche),  105. 

Elizabeth=Chaworth,  105. 

Elizabeth=Dunham,  105. 

Margaret=Chaworth,  105. 

Nicholas,  105. 


168 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Bowles,  103,  103. 

Agnes  (Hambury),  104. 

Alice  (Anneford),  104. 

Alice  (Rushall),  104. 

Catherine=Grobbere,  104. 

Catherine=Hewett,  104. 

Elizabeth  (Giffard),  104. 

Hugh,  104. 

Jane  (Aston),  38. 

Thomas,  38. 

William,  104. 
Bowthe,  Jane  (Brett),  55. 

Thomas,  55. 
Bowyer,  53,  53. 

Alice,  54.  55. 

Alice=Sergeaunt,  54. 

Andrew,  54. 

Anne,  55. 

Anne  (Haywood),  55. 

Anne  (Harcourt),  93. 

Anne= Wedgwood,  51. 

Catherine  (Brereton),  54. 

Catherine  (Knipersley),  54. 

Elizabeth,  54,  55. 

Elizabeth  (Bucknall),  54. 

Elizabeth  (Leveson),  54. 

Elizabeth=Berington,  54. 

Ellen,  54,  55. 

Ellen=Dorington,  54. 

Ellen=Rayne,  54. 

Francis,  55. 

George,  55. 

John,  54,  55. 

Margaret=Ford,  55. 

Maud=Edge,  54. 

Richard,  55. 

Thomas,  8,  54,  55. 

Ursula,  55. 

William,  8,  54,  55. 

(Cotton),  54. 

(Erdeswick),  54. 

(Fox),  54. 

(Stone),  54. 

(Trubshaw),  54. 

Bracy,  Margaret=Harcourt,  96. 

William,  96. 
Bradborne,  40. 

Agnes=Okeover,  121. 

Benedicta=Fitzherbert,  73,  75. 

Henry,  40. 

Isabel  (Ridware),  45. 

John,  73,  75. 

Margaret  (Bagot),  40. 
Bradbury,  Jane=Leveson,  106. 

Thomas,  106. 
Braddock,  30. 

Cassandra  (Humfreston),  81. 

Edmund,  30. 

Edward,  8. 

John,  81. 

=Harcourt,  95. 


Bradshaw,  John,  79. 

Margaret=Fowler,  79. 
Braylesford,  Joan=Bassett,  48. 

Henry,  48. 
Brereton,  Alice=Rudyard,  126. 

Andrew,  54,  143. 

Catherine=Bowyer,  54. 

Elizabeth=Cholmeley,  62. 

Hugh,  126,  143. 

Jane  (Bagot),  40. 

Joan=Aston,  37. 

John,  143. 

Margaret=TJnwin,  143. 

Maud=Noel,  117. 

Ralph,  62,  95. 

Urian,  40. 

William,  37. 

=Harcourt,  95. 

Breton,  Bridget  (Wyrley),  154. 

John,  154. 
Brett,  30,  55,  88,  162. 

Anne  (Wood),  55. 

Cicely  (Fitton),  55. 

Edward,  8,  17,  29,  30,  55,  56. 

Eleanor=Bourne,  55. 

Ellen,  56. 

Ellen  (Brock),  55. 

Isabel,  55. 

Jane=Bowth,  55. 

Joan,  162. 

Joan=^Cailley,  161. 

Joan=Wastneys,  86,  88,  161. 

John,  56,  86,  88,  161. 

Margaret,  55,  56. 

Margaret  (Badley),  55. 

Margaret  (Chetwind),  56. 

Nicholas,  55. 

Ralph,  56. 

Randolph,  8,  55,  56. 

Thomas,  8,  55,  56. 

William,  55,  56. 

(Bagnall),  55. 

Brettayne,  29. 

John,  5,  29. 

=Leveson,  107. 

Brock,  Anthony,  55. 

Ellen=Brett,  55. 

Henry,  8,  14. 
Brome,  25. 
Bromfield,  25. 
Bromley,  1 03. 

John,  59,  105. 

Margaret=Broughton,  59. 

Margaret=Harpur,  105. 
Brook,  56,  56,  57,  57. 

Catherine  (Agard),  56,  57,  58. 

Eleanor,  57,  58. 

Frances  (Wrottesley),  153. 

James,  56,  57,  58. 

Jerome,  53,  57. 

John,  53,  56,  58. 


INDEX. 


169 


Brook — continued. 

Lucy,  57,  58. 

Lucy  (Huddleston),  53,  56,  58. 

Margaret=Whorwood,  148,  151. 

Mary  (Giffard),  83. 

Mary=Leveson,  108. 

Ralph,  11,  18,  151. 

Richard,  3,  56,  83,  148. 

Robert,  5,  53,  56,  57,  58,  108. 

Susan,  57,  58. 

Thomas,  56,  58. 

William,  56,  57,  58. 

=Whorwood,  151. 

Brookes,  Robert,  5. 
Broughton,  58,  58,  60,  60. 

Andrew,  61. 

Anne  (Bagot),  41. 

Anne  (Broughton),  61. 

Anne=Broughton,  61. 

Anne=Vise,  60. 

Audley  (Holstock),  61. 

Bryan,  59,  60. 

Catherine,  60,  61. 

Catherine  (Aston),  59,  60. 

Christopher,  61. 

Dorothy,  60. 

Edmund,  61. 

Edward,  5,  60,  61. 

Eleanor  (Ruggeley),  61. 

Elias,  58. 

Elizabeth,  61. 

Elizabeth  (Harcourt),  61. 

Elizabeth  (Thorpe),  61. 

Elizabeth  (Young),  59. 

Elizabeth=Dodd,  60. 

Ellen  (Barton),  61. 

Ellen  (Greenway),  59. 

Ely,  59. 

Eve  (Greenway)*  59. 

Francis,  59,  60,  61. 

Eulke,  61. 

Humfrey,  59. 

Isabel  (Acton),  60,  135. 

Jane=Beverley,  60. 

Jane=Winston,  60. 

John,  8,  14,  58,  59,  60,  61. 

Julian  (Charnes),  59. 

Julian  (Napton),  59. 

Lewis,  61. 

Margaret,  60. 

Margaret  (Bromley),  59. 

Margaret  (Sandford),  59. 

Margaret  (Young),  59. 

Margery=Vise,  144. 

Mary,  60. 

Mary  (Ros),  60. 

Maud,  61. 

Peter,  60. 

Reginald,  59. 

Richard,  28,  41,  59,  60,  61. 

Roger,  59,  60. 


Broughton — continued. 

Thomas,  8,  58,  59,  60,  61,  135. 

Ursula=Eairfax,  60. 

William,  58,  60,  61. 

(Barrett),  61. 

(Greenway),  59. 

(Harcourt),  96. 

(Napton),  59. 

(Reynold),  59. 

Browne,  Anthony,  77. 

Lucy  (Neville),  77. 

=Bagshaw,  41. 

Brownlow,  Eoljambe  alias,  78. 
Brownson,  Agnes  (Biddulph),  50. 

Richard,  50. 

William,  50. 
Brudnall,  Edmond,  70. 

John,  70. 

Mary  (Everard),  70. 
Bruges,  Jane  (Spenser),  92. 

Richard,  92. 
Brus,  93. 
Bruyn,  141. 
Bucknall,  Elizabeth=Bowyer,  54. 

Jane  (Coyney),  65. 

John,  54. 

Thomas,  8,  14,  65. 
Bulkeley,  103. 

Arthur,  35. 

Joyce  (Ashenhurst),  35. 
Burgate,  141. 
Burgh,  103,  114. 

=Bassett,  49. 

Burleigh,  Lord,  26. 

Burley,  Elizabeth=Trussell,  108. 

Joan=Westcott,  108. 

John,  108. 

(Grey),  108. 

Burnell,  65. 
Burnes,  John,  28. 
Burway,  Richard,  28. 
Busby,  Thomas,  17. 
Bushbury,  23,  90. 

Henry,  23. 

Richard,  90. 

=Clayton,  90,  107. 

=Leveson,  107. 

Butler,  23. 

Edward,  23. 

Elizabeth,  36. 

Margaret=Astley,  36. 

Thomas,  36. 
Byddulle,  Simon,  28. 
Byrkes,  Elizabetk=Yardley,  155. 

William,  155. 
Byron,  37,  45. 

EUen=Blount,  38. 

Joan=Bassett,  38,  46. 

John,  38,  46. 

Lucy,  46. 

Margery  (Booth),  38. 

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THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    15S3. 


Byron — continued. 

Margery= Welsh,  46. 
Nicholas,  38. 
Eichard,  38,  46. 

Caddy, =Umvin,  143. 

Cailley,  Adam,  161. 

Joan  (Brett),  161. 
Calcott,  155. 

Ernilia=Yardley,  155. 

John,  155. 
Callangwood,  Frances  (Arblaster),  34 
Calverley,  Catherine  (Biddulph),  51. 

Richard,  51. 

William,  51. 
Camden,  Alice  (Rudyerd),  127. 

William,  127. 
Camville,  57,  93. 

Lord,  51. 

Matilda=Stafford,  51,  57. 

William,  57. 
Cantilupe,  Nicholas,  162. 

Capell, =Adderley,  33. 

Capenhurst,  62. 

=Cheyney,  62. 

Carden,  Thomas,  5. 

Carey,  Catherine  (Knivet),  123. 

Edward,  123. 
Cariswall,  Peirs,  23. 
Carter,  Anne  (Hawkes),  97. 

Thomas,  97. 
Carwardin,  Aleonora  (Bagot),  40. 

Robert,  40. 

Thomas,  40. 
Cassy,  83. 

Cassandra  (Giffard),  83. 

Francis,  83. 

Henry,  83. 

Thomas,  83. 
Cave,  Ambrose,  154. 

Amice=Hunt,  100. 

Elizabeth=Wyrley,  154. 

Richard,  154. 

Thomas,  100. 

=Harcourt,  95. 

Cawne,  Thomas.  22,  23. 

Cecil,  Robert,  26. 

Chamberlain,  Elizabeth  (Harcourt),  92. 

Richard,  92. 
Chancefield,  Frances  (Walker),  80. 

Thomas,  80. 
Chandos,  John,  22,  23. 
Charlton,  Simon,  59. 

=Napton,  59. 

Charnes,  Jnlian=Bronghton,  59. 
Chaterley,  Elizabeth=;Unwin,  142. 

Stephen,  142. 
Chatterton,  John,  28. 
Chaundler,  Mr.,  155. 
Chaworth,  Elizabeth  (Bowett),  105. 

Margaret  (Bowett),  105. 


Chaworth — continued. 

John,  105. 

William,  105. 
Chelsam,  Frances=Whorwood,  149, 150. 

William,  149,  150. 
Chetleton,  25,  103. 

William,  25. 
Chetwynd,  8. 

Anthony,  139. 

Catherine  (Thickness),  139. 

John,  8,  146. 

Margaret=Brett,  56. 

Mary  (Welles),  146. 

Thomas,  56. 

=Bassett,  45. 

Cheyney,  62. 

John,  62. 

Maud=Cholmeley,  62. 

(Capenhurst),  G2. 

Child,  John,  72. 

Chitwode,  Isabel  (Noel),  117. 

Thomas,  117. 
Cholmeley,  3,  62,  62. 
Anne  (Doleinan),  63. 
Anne  (Hastings),  63. 
Anne=Mainwaring,  62. 
Bennet,  63. 

Catherine=Priestland,  62. 
Dennis  (Phillips),  63. 
Edward,  3,  63. 
Eleanor  (Langton),  63. 
Elizabeth  (Brereton),  62. 
Elizabeth  (Michell),  63. 
Elizabeth  (Slaide),  63. 
Elizabeth  (Talbot),  62. 
Elizabeth=Hanmer,  62. 
Ellen  (Davenport),  62. 
Ellen=Hassall,  62. 
Frances,  63. 
George,  62. 
Henry,  63. 
Hugh,  62,  63. 
Humfrey,  63. 
Isabel  (Hare),  63. 
Joan  (Turner),  63. 
John,  62,  63. 
Kenryke,  62. 
Margery  (Aynion),  63. 
Maud  (Cheyney),  62. 
Maud  (Chorley),  62. 
Nicholas,  63. 
Randall,  62,  63. 
Richard,  62,  63. 
Robert,  63. 
Thomas,  63. 
Ursula=Standley,  62. 
William,  62,  63. 
(Allyn),  63. 

(Button),  62. 

(Pixstock),  62. 

(Powell),  63. 


INDEX. 


171 


Cliolraeley — continued. 

=Hinton,  62. 

Chorley,  Maud=Cholmeley,  62. 
Clapton,  Anne=Strethay,  137. 
Clarell,  89. 

Elizabeth  (Scroope),  76. 

Elizabeth=Fitzwilliam,  76. 

Margery =Gresley,  85,  89. 

Matilda  (Montgomery),  89. 

Thomas,  76,  85,  89. 
Claxson,  Alice=Rugeley,  127. 

William,  127. 
Clayton,  45,  90,  103. 

Elizabeth  (Vise),  145. 

Helena=Leveson,  107. 

John,  90,  107. 

Rose=Grosvenor,  90,  107. 

Thomas,  29. 

William,  145. 

■  (Bushbury),  90,  107. 

Clement,  Agnes=Leveson,  106. 

William,  106. 
Clerk,  Anne,  123. 

Barnabas,  96. 

Edward,  16. 

Eleanor  (Paget),  123. 

Elizabeth,  123. 

Isabel  (Harcourt),  96. 

Joan  (Harcourt),  93. 

Margery=Rugeley,  128. 

Rowland,  123. 

= Aston,  39. 

alias  Greenway,  Edward,  3. 

alias  Welles,  John,  90. 
Clerkson,  Anne=Everard,  70. 

Richard,  70. 
Cliff e,  Margaret,  112. 

Richard,  112. 
Clifton,  Catherine=Eitzwilliam,  76. 

John,  76. 
Clinton,  Elizabeth=Fitzwilliain,  76. 

Joan  (Meynell),  44. 

William,  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  76. 

Clive, =Harcourt,  95. 

Cocke,  103. 

Henry,  105. 

John,  105. 

Margaret=Harpur,  105. 

(Allesley),  105. 

Cockes,  Anne=Whorwood,  157. 

John,  146. 

Marian=Welles,  146. 
Cokayne,  Alice=Littleton,  110. 

Anne=Bassett,  45,  46. 

Barbara  (Fitzherbert),  74. 

Elizabeth  (Meverell),  45,  46. 

Francis,  110. 

Henry,  45,  46. 

Jane  (Okeover),  121. 

Margaret= Woodson,  45. 

Thomas,  45,  46,  74,  110,  121. 


Cokenage,  42. 

Alice,  42. 

David,  42,  43. 

Eve,  42. 

Eve=Hall,  43. 

Eve=Wolriche,  43. 

Geoffrey,  42. 

Hawise,  42. 

Hugh,  42. 

Isabel,  42. 

Joan,  42. 

Joan=Bartram,  42. 

John,  42,  43. 

Margery,  43. 

Peter,  42. 

Ralph,  42,  43. 

Richard,  42. 

Robert,  42. 

William,  42. 
Coleclough,  Anne  (Smith),  130. 

Anthony,  18. 

Bartholomew,  7,  15. 

Richard,  130. 
Coleman,  Elizabeth  (Whitgreave),  147. 

John,  4,  17. 

Walter,  147. 

=Bate,  115. 

=Endesore,  69. 

Coleson,  Elizabeth  (Giffard),  104. 
Collins,  Margaret=Harcourt,  96. 

Mary  (Harcourt),  96. 

Thomas,  96. 
Colover,  114. 
Colton,  Geoffrey,  158 

Matthania=Wastneys,  158. 
Colville,  Elizabeth=Bassett,  49. 
Colwych,  Elias,  158. 
Colyar,  64,  64. 

Agnes,  64. 

Agnes  (Venables),  64. 

Cecilia,  64. 

Christopher,  64. 

Elizabeth  (Skrimshire),  64. 

Isabel,  64. 

James,  64. 

Letitia,  64. 

Margaret,  64. 

Margery =Ashenhurst,  35. 

Mary,  64. 

Richard,  64. 

Robert,  8,  64,  129. 

Thurstan,  64. 
Comberford,  5,  24. 

Agnes=Shepy,  68. 

Alan,  68. 

Anne=Quilet,  68. 

Dorothy  (Wyrley),  154. 

Dorothy=Eiidesore,  69. 

Elizabeth=Staniford,  137. 

Humfrey,  69,  75. 

Margaret  (Stanley),  52. 


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172 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Comberford — continued,. 

Margery,  68. 

Richard,  68. 

Thomas,  20,  52,  137,  154. 

William,  5. 

(Fitzherbert),  75. 

(Harcourt),  95. 

Congreve,  4,  24. 

Dorothy  (Giffard),  81,  82. 

Francis,  4,  19. 

Geoffrey,  24. 

John,  81,  82. 
Coningshy,  Cicely  (Salway),  51. 

Elizabeth=Littleton,  109. 

Humfrey,  51,  109. 
Conyers,  Alice  (Adderley),  33. 

John,  33. 
Cooke,  137. 

Anne=Goodyer,  135. 

Anne=Strethay,  138. 

Edward,  134. 

Joan  (Stamford),  134. 

Mary=Tyrrell,  141. 

Richard,  135. 

William,  138. 

(Greve),  135. 

Cooper,  John,  69. 

=Endesore,  69. 

Copwood,  Margaret  (Bassett),  45. 

Richard,  45. 

(Fitzherbert),  74. 

Corbett,  64,  64,  132. 

Alice=Stafford,  132. 

Anne,  65. 

Elizabeth  (Spicer),  65. 

Elizabeth=Trentham,  140. 

George,  136, 147. 

Joan  (Crouch),  64. 

Joan=Andrews,  65. 

Richard,  64,  140. 

Robert,  64. 

Roger,  65. 

Thomas,  8,  65,  132. 

Walter,  65. 

William,  65. 

=Whitgreve,  136,  147. 

Corbin,  Edith=Dickens,  67. 

Elizabeth=Whorwood,  150. 

Richard,  150. 

Thomas,  67. 

(Moore),  67. 

=Whorwood,  148. 

Cornwall,  Elizabeth  (Wastneys),  161. 

John,  161. 
Costliffe,  Catherine  (Persall),  115. 

Christian=Moseley,  115. 

Robert,  115. 
Cotes,  Eleanor  (Littleton),  45. 

Ellen = Bassett,  45. 
Cottesmore,  Florence  (Harcourt),  92. 

William,  92. 


Cotton,  72. 

Anne  (Kinnersley),  92. 

Elizabeth=Grosvenor,  91. 

Grace  (Crompton),  67. 

Humfrey,  9,  91,  92. 

Margaret  (Crompton),  67. 

Matilda=Fitzherbert,  73,  75. 

Richard,  28,  73,  75. 

Thomas,  67. 

=Bowyer,  54. 

Couley,  John,  72. 
Coyney,  65,  65. 

Adam,  66. 

Alice  (Erdeswick),  65. 

Anne  (Wolseley),  66. 

Cassandra,  66 

Dorothy  (Meverell),  65. 

Dorothy=Barlow,  66. 

Edward,  66. 

Eleanor=Allen,  66. 

George,  66. 

Jane,  66. 

Jane  (Downe),  66. 

Jane=Bucknall,  65. 

John,  7,  65,  66,  71. 

Margery,  66. 

Margery  (Nedeham),  66. 

Margery  (Spurstowe),  65. 

Mary,  66. 

Parnell=Dolman,  65. 

Robert,  65. 

Susan,  66. 

Thomas,  66. 

Walter,  65. 

Winifred  (Skrimshire),  66. 
Cradock,  Francis,  28. 

George,  28. 

Jane=Main  waring,  113. 

Mathew,  4,  28,  113. 
Creswell,  Joan=Plantney,  125. 

John,  11. 

Richard,  125. 

Thomas,  4. 

= Aston,  39. 

Croche,  Bartholomew,  146. 

Margaret  (Welles),  146. 
Croftes,  Sybel=Huddleston,  53. 
Crompton,  66,  66. 

Anne,  67. 

Anne=Noel,  118. 

Catherine  (Rawson),  66. 

Catherine  (Richardson),  G7. 

Elizabeth,  67. 

Elizabeth  (Girling),  66. 

Grace=Cotton,  67. 

Hugh,  67. 

Jane  (Aston),  39. 

Margaret,  67. 

Margaret=Cotton,  67. 

Richard,  7,  66,  67. 

Rose=Latus,  67. 


INDEX. 


173 


Crompton — continued. 

Thomas,  66. 

William,  9,  15,  39,  66,  67,  118. 
Cromwell,  Maud=Fitzwilliani,  76. 

Ralph,  Lord,  76. 
Cross,  Cicely  (Noel),  118. 

Thomas,  118. 
Crouch,  Joan=Corbett,  64. 
Cruchley,  James,  28. 
Cuhley,  Walter,  121. 
Cuny,  John,  7. 
Curzon,  40. 

Anne=Strethay,  137. 

Isabella=Bagot,  40. 

Jane  (Bagot),  40. 

John,  40. 

Thomas,  38. 

(Aston),  38. 

Dakeyne,  William,  2. 
Dakyns,  Christopher,  2. 

William,  2. 
Dale,  Robert,  28. 

Thomas,  29. 

Dalyson, =Aston,  39. 

Danyers,  Margaret=Leigh,  101. 
Darcy,  John,  Lord,  78. 

Mary=Babington,  78. 

Mary=Foljambe,  78. 
Darrell,  Agnes=Harcourt,  91. 

Thomas,  89. 

■  (Gresley),  89, 

=Harcourt,  95. 

Davenport,  Ellen=Cholmeley,  62. 

John,  62. 

Margaret  (Bagot),  40. 
Day,  Jane  (Fowler),  80. 

Richard,  80. 
De  la  Hay,  Juliana=Humett,  99. 

Richard,  29. 
De  la  Pole,  93. 
De  Vere,  Edward,  Earl  of  Oxford,  141. 

Elizabeth  (Trentham),  141. 

Henry,  Earl  of  Oxford,  141. 
Delves,  Elizabeth=Aston,  37. 

John,  37. 
Denham,  Elizabeth=Bassett,  49. 
Dethick,  45. 

Joan=Tikhill,  44. 

John,  44. 

Margaret  (Meynell),  44. 

Margaret=Bassett,  44,  46. 

Margaret=Montgomery,  46. 

Margaret=Okeover,  121. 

Philip,  44. 

Reginald,  44,  46. 

Roger,  44. 

Thomas,  44. 

Thomasin  (Meynell),  44,  46. 

William,  44. 
Devereux,  Margaret= Littleton,  110. 


Devereux — continued. 

William,  110. 
Dickens,  67,  67. 

Alice,  68. 

Alice  (Moreton),  68,  114. 

Alice=Moreton,  67,  114. 

Edith  (Corbin),  67. 

Eleanor  (Blount),  67. 

Elizabeth,  67,  68. 

Hugh,  67. 

Humfrey,  67,  134. 

Joan  (Lee),  67. 

John,  67,  68. 

Mary,  68. 

Richard,  67. 

Thomas,  67,  114. 

William,  11,  67,  68,  134. 

(Stamford),  134. 

Dickenson,  Margaret=Whorwood,  149. 

Richard,  4,  16. 
Digby,  Derverguld=Hunt,  100. 

Everard,  100. 
Dina,  filia  Rob'ti  fitz  Hardolph,  156. 
Dina,  uxor  Rob'ti  fitz  Walter,  157. 
Dodd,  Elizabeth  (Broughton),  60. 

George,  60. 

John,  130. 

Margaret=Smith,  130. 
Dolman,  Anne=Cholmeley,  63. 

G-eorge,  63. 

Parnell  (Coyney),  65. 
Dorington,  Ellen  (Bowyer),  54. 

Richard,  28. 

Sampson,  9. 

Thomas,  28,  54. 
Downe,  Jane=Coyney,  66. 

Ralph,  66. 

=Moreton,  114. 

Draycott,  7,  27. 

Elizabeth  (Fitzherbert),  73,  75. 

Elizabeth=Foljambe,  75. 

Jane=Aston,  37. 

Jane=Noel,  117. 

John,  7,  19,  71. 

Philip,  4,  73,  75. 

Roger,  37. 
Drayton,  93. 
Dryby,  49. 

Alice,  49. 

Alice=Bassett,  49. 

Alice=Touchet,  49. 
Dudley,  22,  26. 

Catherine=Gresley,  85,  89. 

Edmund,  Lord,  153. 

Edward  Sutton,  Lord,  148. 

Eleanor  (Talbot),  129. 

Geoffrey,  129. 

John  Sutton,  Lord,  153. 

Lord,  22,  26. 
Duffield,  Dorothy  (Welles),  146. 

Richard,  146. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Duncalf,  "William,  28. 
Dunham,  103,  106. 

Anne=Meverell,  106. 

Benedicta  (Foljambe),  106. 

Catherine=Leigh,  102,  106. 

Catherine=Okeover,  121. 

Elizabeth  (Bowett),  105. 

Elizabeth=Bassett,  106. 

Frances=Hazlewood,  106. 

Isabel  (Bagot),  40. 

John,  102, 105, 106. 

Mary=Grantham,  106. 

"William,  40. 
Dutton,  Thomas,  62. 

=Cholmeley,  62. 

Dynham,  Edith=Fowler,  78. 

John,  Lord,  78. 

Eardley,  see  Yardley. 
Eardley-Wilmot,  155. 
Edge  alias  Hawkins,  97. 
Edge,  Maud  (Bowyer),  54. 

Richard,  54. 
Edwards,    Magdalen=.Whorwood,    149, 
150. 

Rowland,  150. 
Egerton,  9,  26,  46. 

Ellen=Bassett,  47. 

Hugh,  47,  95, 96. 

John,  89. 

Margaret  (Aston),  142. 

Margaret  (Bassett),  47. 

Ralph,  9,  29,  47. 

Richard,  47,  105. 

Thomas,  28. 

(Gresley),  89. 

(Harpur),  105. 

=Harcourt,  95,  96. 

=Whitgreave,  147. 

Egginton,  Isabel  (Moreton),  68,  114. 

John,  4,  16,  68,  114. 
Ellis,  Isabel=Hill,  98. 

John,  98. 

Thomas,  98. 
Elveden,      Dionysia=Fitzherbert,     73, 
75. 

Henry,  73. 
Endesore,  68,  6S. 

Anne  (Hopwas),  68. 

Barnaby,  69. 

Christopher,  69. 

Dorothy  (Comberford),  69. 

Edward,  69. 

Elizabeth,  69. 

Ellen  (Okeover),  69. 

George,  69. 

Helen  (Savage),  69. 

Humfrey,  69. 

Isabel,  69. 

John,  69. 

Richard,  5,  69. 


Endesore — cont  inued. 

Susan,  69. 

Thomas,  5,  68,  69. 

Walter,  69. 

(Coleman),  69. 

■  (Cooper),  69. 

Englefield,  Cecilia=Fowler,  78. 

Joan  (Rycote),  78. 

Nicholas,  78. 
Erdeswike,  9,  27. 

Alice=Coyney,  65. 

Cecilia  (Bassett),  46. 

Elizabeth  (Harcourt),  95. 

Henry,  46,  111. 

Hugh,  9,  18,  44,  46,  51,  95,  112. 

Jane=Whitgreave,  147. 

John,  147. 

Margaret=Macclesfield,  111. 

Margery=Salway,  51. 

Sampson,  9. 

Thomasin  (Meynell),  44. 

=Bowyer,  54. 

Erdinton,  Gyles,  22. 

Henry,  22. 

Maud  (Somerie),  22. 
Essex,  Earl  of,  26. 

Robert,  Earl  of,  9. 
Eton,  Margaret  ("Wyrley),  154. 

William,  154. 
Everard,  30,  69,  69. 

Alice,  70. 

Anne  (Clerkson),  70. 

Catherine,  70. 

Edward,  70. 

Frances,  70. 

George,  69. 

Humfrey,  5,  30,  70. 

Jane  (Waterton),  70. 

Joan,  70. 

John,  70. 

Joyce  (Langham),  69. 

Joyce=Barford,  70. 

Margaret  (Wolferston),  69. 

Margaret=Wolferston,  70. 

Mary=Brudenall,  70. 

Maud=Woodhall,  70. 

Michael,  70. 

Richard,  69,  70. 

Robert,  69. 

Sampson,  70. 

Thomas,  69. 

William,  69. 
Everdon,  45. 
Eyre,  72. 

Arthur,  73,  76. 

Jane  (Fitzherbert),  73. 

Rowland,  5. 

Thomas,  73. 

= Fitzherbert,  73,  76. 

Eyton,  Anthony,  7,  15. 

Thomas,  72. 


INDEX. 


175 


Fairfax,  Catherine  (Bassett),  49. 

Guy,  49. 

Robert,  60. 

Ursula  (Brougliton),  60. 

William,  60. 
Farmer,  Anne=Leigk,  102. 

Frances  (Hoorde),  105. 

John,  102. 

Thomas,  105. 
Farnham,  Robert,  21. 
Fawcon,  72. 
Feckenham,  John,  28. 
Feme,  70,  70. 

Anne,  71. 

Anne  (Jackson),  71. 

Anne  (Sheffield),  71. 

Anne=Fitzherbert,  71. 

Dorothy,  71. 

Douglas,  71. 

Edward,  71. 

Elizabeth  (Nedeham),  71. 

Elizabetk=Rothewood,  71. 

Joan  (Beresford),  70. 

John,  7,  15,  70,  71. 

Mary,  71. 

Phillis,  71. 

Phillis  (Milward),  70. 

Thomas,  70. 

William,  70,  71. 

alias  Miller,  John,  35. 
Ferrers,  Anne=Gresley,  85,  89. 

Henry,  52. 

Maud  (Stanley),  52. 

Thomas,  85,  89. 

William,  52. 

(Stanley),  52. 

Fery,  Elizabeth  (Fitzherbert),  75. 
Field,  Ann=Whorwood,  149. 

John,  149. 

=Whorwood,  150. 

Fielding,  Basil,  39. 
Findeme,  71,  71. 

George,  72. 

John,  71. 

Nicholas,  72. 

Robert,  71,  72. 

Thomas,  72. 
Fisher,  Margery = Stamford,  133. 
Fitton,  Cicely=Brett,  55. 

Ellen,  112. 

Helena=Macclesfield,  111. 

Isabel= Vise,  145. 

Jenken,  145. 

John,  55,  111,  112. 

Thomas,  18. 
Fitzalan,  93. 
Fitzclement,  Henry,  106. 

Margery=Leveson,  106. 
Fitzherbert,  72,  72,  74,  74,  125,  145, 
146. 

Alice  (Booth),  72,  74. 


Fitzherbert — continued. 

Anne,  73. 

Anne  (Feme),  71. 

Anne  (Waynian),  73,  75. 

Anne=Heveningham,  74. 

Anne= Wells,  73,  75,  146. 

Anthony,  45,  46,  73,  74,  75. 

Barbara=Cokayne,  74. 

Benet  (Bradborne),  73,75. 

Catherine  (Restwood),  73. 

Catherine=Sacheverell,  76. 

Dionysia  (Elveden),  73,  75. 

Dorothy  (Longford),  73,  75. 

Dorothy  (Willoughby),  73. 

Dorothy=Hill,  98. 

Dorothy=Longford,  76. 

Dorothy=Port,  76. 

Dorothy=Wingfield,  75. 

Edith=Babington,  75. 

Edith=Listerr  75. 

Elizabeth,  73. 

Elizabeth  (Joscelin),  72. 

Elizabeth  (Marshall),  73,  75. 

Elizabeth  (Swinnerton),  74. 

Elizabeth  (Westby),  74. 

Elizabeth=Bassett,  45,  46,  76. 

Elizabeth=Draycott,  73,  75. 

Elizabeth=Fery,  75. 

Elizabeth=White,  75. 

Eustace,  73,  74. 

Francis,  74. 

George,  74. 

Grace=Harcourt,  92. 

Grace=Robinson,  75,  92,  125. 

Helena=Gevelott,  75. 

Henry,  73,  74,  75. 

Humfrey,  73,  75,  92, 125. 

Isabel  (Ludlow),  72. 

Jane=Eyre,  73. 

Joan=Port,  73,  74. 

John,  71,  72,  73,  74,  75,  76,  146. 

Margery  (Babington),  72,  74. 

Margery=Purferey,  75. 

Mary,  73. 

Mary  (Westcott),  74. 

Matilda  (Cotton),  73,  75. 

Maud=Barlow,  73, 

Michael,  73,  75. 

Nicholas,  72,  73,  74,  75. 

Ralph,  73,  75. 

Richard,  74,  76. 

Robert,  72,  74,  98. 

Thomas,  5,  19,  73,  74,  76. 

Wilgefort=Tansfield,  75. 

William,  74,  76. 

(Eyre),  73,  76. 

(Joscelin),  74. 

=Comberford,  75. 

=Copwood,  74. 

=Smith,  74. 

Fitzwilliam,  76,  76, 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Fitzwilliam — continued. 

Agnes  (Pakenham),  77. 

Alice=Foljambe,  77. 

Catherine  (Clifton),  76. 

Edmond,  76. 

Elizabeth  (Clarell),  76. 

Elizabeth  (Clinton),  76. 

Elizabeth=Gascoigne,  77. 

Elizabeth=Wortley,  76. 

John,  76. 

Lucy  (Neville),  77. 

Margaret=Foljambe,  77. 

Margaret=Gascoigne,  77. 

Maud  (Cromwell),  76. 

Maud  (Hotham),  76. 

Richard,  76. 

Thomas,  77. 

William,  76. 

"William,     Earl     of     Southampton, 
77. 

=Mirfield,  76. 

=Reresby,  76. 

=Skipwith,  76. 

=Wentworth,  76. 

Flackett,  Henry,  7,  15. 
Elambert,  141. 
Fleetwood,  7,  26. 

John,  7,  19. 

Flower, (widow)=Noel,  118. 

Flyar,  Richard,  7,  14. 
Foljambe,  77,  77. 

Alice  (Fitzwilliam),  77. 

Benedicta=Dunham,  106. 

Catherine,  78. 

Catherine  (Leeke),  77. 

Constance  (Littleton),  110. 

Dorothy  (Barlow),  77. 

Elizabeth  (Draycott),  75. 

Emma  (Tunsted),  78. 

George,  77,  78. 

Godfrey,  7, 77,  78. 

James,  77,  110. 

Jane  (Foljambe),  78. 

Jane=Foljambe,  78. 

Margaret  (Fitzwilliam),  77. 

Mary  (Darcy),  78. 

Trothe,  78. 

alias  Brownlow,  78. 
Folyot,  Barbara  (Littleton),  110. 

John, 110. 
Fonte,  Anthony,  118. 

Elizabeth  (Noel),  118. 
Ford,  Margaret  (Bowyer),  55. 

Richard,  43. 

W.,  55. 
Forster,  Thomas,  145. 

Ursula  (Vise),  145. 
Fowden,  Hugh,  9,  14. 
Fowke,  or  Foulke,  4. 

Catherine,  112. 

Catherine=Macclesfield,  111. 


Fowke — continued. 

Elizabeth=Leveson,  107. 

Jane=Somerford,  131. 

John,  4,  91. 

Joyce=Grosvenor,  91. 

Roger,  4,  91,  107,  131. 

Thomas,  5. 

William,  111,  112. 
Fowler,  27,  78,  7S. 

Alice,  79. 

Alice  (Houghton),  78. 

Anne,  80. 

Anne=Montford,  80. 

Anne=Noel,  118. 

Bridget  (Mundeford),  79. 

Bryan,  9,  17,  79,  80. 

Cassandra=Stone,  80. 

Catherine  (More ton),  79. 

Cecilia  (Englefield),  78. 

Dorothy=Walker,  80. 

Edith  (Dynhani),  78. 

Edmond,  80. 

Edward,  78,  79. 

Frances=Chancefield,  80. 

George,  79. 

Isabel,  80. 

James,  11,  79. 

Jane  (Hanmer),  79. 

Jane=Day,  80. 

John,  80. 

Margaret,  79. 

Margaret  (Bradshaw),  79. 

Margaret  (Moreton),  79. 

Margaret=Lane,  80. 

Margery  (Lee),  78. 

Margery  (Lester),  78. 

Martha=Skrimshire,  80. 

Mary,  79. 

Mary  (Blithe),  79. 

Mary  (Lee),  78. 

Mary  (Lester),  78. 

Mary  (Sheldon),  80. 

Peter,  79. 

Richard,  78,  79. 

Roger,  79. 

Rowland,  79. 

Sibil  (Leigh),  79. 

Thomas,  78,  79. 

Walter,  79,  80. 

William,  78,  79. 
Fox, (Trentham),  140. 

= Bowyer,  54. 

Foxall,  William,  11,  15. 
Francis,  Jane=Hill,  98. 

John,  98. 

Joyce=Giffard,  80. 

Richard,  100. 

Robert,  80. 

Susan  (Hunt),  100. 
Franknell,  Susanna  (Okeover),  122. 

Thomas,  122, 


INDEX. 


17; 


Freville,  37. 

Baldwin,  37. 

Joyce= Aston,  37. 
Frith,  Thomas,  5,  15. 
Frodeshall,  John,  72. 
Fylston,  M.,  129. 
Fynney,  William,  4,  16. 

Gamble,  Robert,  9,  14. 
Garnett,  John,  139. 

"Ursula  (Thickness),  139. 
Gascoigne,  Elizabeth  (Fitzwilliam),  77. 
Margaret  (Fitzwilliam),  77. 
William,  77. 
Gastineys,  see  Wastneys. 
Gattacre,  Francis,  9. 
Gay  wood,  John,  9,  14. 

Nicholas,  9,  14. 
Gerard,  Elizabeth  (Port),  82. 

Margaret=Stanley,  52. 

Thomas,  52,  82. 

(Port),  81. 

Gernon,  87. 

John,  86,  S7. 

Margaret= Gresley,  86,  87. 
Gervis,  see  Jervis. 
Gevelott,  Helena  (Fitzherbert),  75. 

Mary,  75. 

William,  75. 
Gibston,  Anthony,  96. 

Margaret=Harcourt,  96. 
Giffard,  24,  80,  SO,  81,  81. 

Alianora  (Ward),  82. 

Anne= Smith,  83. 

Cassandra  (Humfreston),  80,  81. 

Cassandra  (Knightley),  80,  81. 

Cassandra=Cassy,  83. 

Cassandra=Swinerton,  81. 

Cassandra=Swynfen,  82. 

Cassandra=Wolseley,  83. 

Dorothy,  83. 

Dorothy  (Montgomery),  81,  82. 

Dorothy=Astley,  36,  83. 

Dorothy=Congreve,  81,  82. 

Dorothy=Shirley,  81,  82. 

Edward,  82,  83. 

Elizabeth,  83. 

Elizabeth  (Gresley),  81,  82. 

Elizabeth=Bowles,  104. 

Elizabeth=Coleson,  104. 

Elizabeth =Port,  82. 

Frances,  82. 

Frances  (Skerne),  82. 

Frances =Talbot,  81,  82. 

Francis,  83. 

George,  83. 

Gerald,  83. 

Gilbert,  83. 

Giles.  83. 

Humfrey,  4,  82. 

Isabel=Biddulph,  51,  83. 


Giffard — continued. 
Jane,  83. 
Jane  (Hord),  81. 
Joan  (Hord),  82. 

John,  4,  18,  24,  SI,  82,  83,  84,  104. 
Joyce  (Francis),  80. 
Joyce  (Leveson),  83. 
Mary=Brooke,  83. 
Peter,  83. 

Philippa  (White),  83. 
Richard,  83. 
Robert,  24,  80,  82. 
Thomas,  36,  51,  80,  81,  82,  83. 
Ursula,  18,  82,  83. 
Ursula  (Throckmorton),  81,  82. 
Walter,  83. 

=Port,  81. 

Gilbert,  Ellen =Adderley,  33. 
Girling,  Elizabeth=Coyney,  66. 
Gledenhurst,  Custom =Unwin,  143. 
Globard,  Eve=Bartram,  43. 
John,  43. 
Thomas,  43. 
Glover,  William,  131. 

Winifred=Somerford,  131. 
Goisfridus,  157. 
Goodyer,  Anne  (Cooke),  135. 
Anne=Walkeden,  135. 
Ciceley,  135. 
Henry,  135. 
William,  135. 

(Rumbald),  135. 

Gower,  Barbara  (Littleton),  110. 

Henry,  110. 
Granger,  Catherine  (Somerford),  131. 

Richard,  131. 
Grantham,  Mary  (Dunham),  106. 

Thomas,  106. 
Gravenor,  see  Grosvenor. 
Greenway,  50,  58. 
Anthony,  93. 
Ellen=Biddulph,  50. 
Ellen=Broughton,  59. 
Eve=Broughton,  59. 
Richard,  50,  59. 
Thomas,  59. 
William,  50. 
Winifred  (Harcourt),  93. 

• (Tilney),  92. 

=Broughton,  59. 

alias  Clarke,  Edward,  3. 

Grendon,  John,  24. 
Gresley,  26,  85,  85,  86,  87. 
Agnes,  86,  87,  159. 
Alice  (Swinner(o.i),  86,  87. 
Anne  (Ferrers),  85,  89. 
Anne  (Stanley),  85,  89. 
Benet  (Vernon),  85,  89. 
Basilia,  86,  87. 
Catherine,  17,  85,  90. 
Catherine  (Aston),  38,  85,  89. 
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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583, 


Gresley — continued. 

Catherine  (Dudley),  85,  89. 

Catherine  (WaMngham),  85,  90. 

Catherine=Winter,  85,  89. 

Edward,  85,  89. 

Elizabeth,  85,  90. 

Elizabeth  (Bakepuz),  86,  87. 

Elizabeth=Giffard,  81,  82. 

Elizabeths  Somerset,  85,  89. 

Ellen,  87. 

Geoffrey,  86,  87. 

George,  85,  89,  90. 

Grace,  85,  90. 

Hastings,  85,  90. 

Henry,  85,  87,  90. 

James,  85,  89. 

Jane,  85,  90. 

Joan,  87. 

Joan  (Stafford),  86,  87- 

Joan=Astley,  36. 

John,  85,  86,  87,  89,  90,  152. 

Juliana,  86,  87- 

Margaret  (Gernon),  86,  87. 

Margaret  (Mulsho),  85,  89. 

Margaret  (Walsh),  86,  89. 

Margery  (Clarell),  85,  89. 

Margery  (Somerville),  86,  87. 

Mary,  85,  90. 

Nicholas,  86,  89,  156. 

Peris  (sic),  86. 

Peter,  87. 

Robert,  85,  86,  87,  89. 

Simon,  90. 

Steven,  85. 

Thomas,  9,  36,  85,  86,  89,  90. 

Thomasine  (Wastneys),  86,  89,156. 

Thoniasine=Wrottesley,  152. 

William,  38,  85,  86,  87,  89,  90. 

William  fitz  Nigel,  86,  87. 

=Darrell,  89. 

=Egerton,  89. 

=Montfort,  89. 

Greswold,  Joan  (Stokeley),  104. 

William,  104. 
Greteham,  Anne=Noel,  119. 

Thomas,  119. 

Greve, =Cooke,  135. 

Greville,  Anne=Nevillc,  116. 

Robert,  116. 
Grey,  Cassandra=Whor\vood,  148. 

Catherine = Blount,  136. 
Edward,  148. 
Elizabeth  (Bassett),  49. 
Elizabeth=Zouche,  49. 
Henry,  Lord,  49. 
Jane  (Harcourt),  92. 
John,  11,  18,  92,  136. 
Joyce=Whorwood,  148. 
Richard,  49, 108. 

(Harcourt),  96. 

(Humctt),  99. 


Grey — continued. 

* =Burley,  108. 

Grey  de  Ruthin,  Joan  (Astley),  36. 

Reginald,  36. 

Griffith,  27. 
Grin,  120,  146. 
Grobbere,  103,  104. 

Alice  (Ive),105. 

Catherine  (Bowles),  101. 

Catherine  (Walsall),  104,  105. 

Elizabeth  (Rolston),  105. 

Robert,  104. 

William,  104,  105. 
Grosvenor,  90,  90. 

Alice  (Whitgreave),  91,  147. 

Elizabeth  (Cotton),  91. 

Elizabeth=Newman,  91. 

Gawin,  91. 

Gertrude,  91. 

Henry,  15,  91,  147. 

Hester,  91. 

Humfrey,  90,  149. 

Isabella=Whorwood,  149. 

James,  91. 

John,  90,  107. 

Jonas,  91,  92. 

Joseph,  91. 

Joyce,  91. 

Joyce  (Eoulke),  91. 

Joyce  (Wells  alias  Clarke),  90. 

Richard,  91. 

Rose  (Clayton),  90,  107. 

Sarah,  91. 

Solomon,  91. 

Thomas,  91. 

Venice,  91. 

Walter,  11,  91. 

(Kinnersley),  91. 

Grove,  Henry,  5,  20. 

Guisnes,  Ursula  (Harcourt),  93. 

Gydney,  Margaret=Stamford,  133. 

Hakluit,  Elizabeth  (Trentham),  140. 

Thomas,  140. 

(Trentham),  140. 

Hall,  Eve  of  the  (Cokenage),  43. 

John  of  the,  43. 

Philip,  11,  15. 
Hambury,  Agnes= Bowles,  104. 

Henry,  104. 
Hampton,  John,  23. 
Hanbury,  103. 
Hanmer,  Elizabeth  (Cholmeley),  62. 

Jane=Eowler,  79. 

John,  62,  79. 

(Leigh),  102, 

Hanson,  Henry,  28. 
Harcourt,  91,  91,  93,  94,  94. 

Agnes  (Darrell),  91. 

Alice,  117. 

Alice  (Noel),  97, 119. 


INDEX. 


179 


Harcourt — continued. 
Anne=Bowyer,  93. 
Anne=Knivet,  93. 
Anne= Wilson,  96. 
Anthony,  95,  96. 
Catherine,  96. 
Catherine=Herle,  93. 
Christopher,  95. 
Dorothy,  96. 

Dorothy  (Eobinson),  92,  125. 
Edith  (St.  Clere),  95. 
Edmund,  92. 
Edward,  92,  95,  96. 
Eleanor  (Lewknor),  95,  96. 
Elizabeth,  92,  96. 
Elizabeth  (Leigh),  102. 
Elizabeth  (Robins,  widow),  92. 
Elizabeth=Astley,  36,  94. 
Elizabeth=Broughton,  61. 
Elizabeth=Chamberlaiu,  92. 
Elizabeth=Erdeswick,  95. 
Elizabeth=Ludford,  95. 
Elizabeth=Seystons,  96. 
Florence=Cottesmore,  92. 
Eulke,  94. 
Geoffrey,  94. 
George,  102. 
Gervase,  Earl  of,  94. 
Grace,  92. 

Grace  (Fitzherbert),  92. 
Henry,  92. 
Humfrey,  96. 
Isabel=Clark,  96. 
Isabel=Moseley,  115. 
Isabel =Wrottesley,  153. 
Jane,  92. 

Jane  (Spencer),  92. 
Jane=Grey,  92. 
Joan,  94. 
Joan—Clarke,  93. 
John,  92,  95,  96,  120,  153. 
Margaret,  93,  96. 
Margaret  (Barantine),  92. 
Margaret  (Bracy),  96. 
Margaret  (Collyns),  96. 
Margaret  (Gibston),  96. 
Mary,  92. 

Mary  (Aston),  38,  92. 
Mary=Collins,  96. 
Michael,  92. 
Orabel  (Leger),  119. 
Orabel  (Quincy),  97. 
Richard,  36,  95,  96,  97,  119. 
Robert,  92,  94,  96. 
Romicius,  Earl  of,  94. 
Simon,  38,  91,  92,  95. 
Thomas,  94,  95,  96,  119,  120,  153. 
Ursula=:Guisnes,  93. 
Walter,  9,  92,  93,  95,  125. 
Wilgefort,  92. 
William,  92,94,95,97,115, 119,120. 


Harcourt — continued. 

Winifred=Greenway,  93. 

(Brereton),  95. 

(Brodock),  95. 

(Cave),  95. 

(Clive),  95. 

(Darell),  95. 

(Egerton),  95,  96. 

(Leftwich),  95. 

(Scryvin),  96. 

(Tilney),  92. 

(Windsor),  92. 

(York,  widow),  91. 

=Bohe,  95. 

=Broughton,  96. 

=Comberford,  95, 

=-Grey,  96. 

=Lane,  95. 

=  Ludford,  95. 

=Peshall,  95. 

=Ruggeley,  96. 

=Swinnerton,  95. 

=Wrottesley,  95. 

Hardulph,  157. 

Robert  fitz,  88,  156. 
Hare,  Isabel =Cholmeley,  63. 

John,  63. 
Harington,  James,  118. 

= Leigh,  102. 

=Noel,  118. 

Harman,  Dorothy=Wyrley,  154. 

Hugh,  154. 

John,  5. 

,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  154. 

Harpesfleld  alias  Mitton,  John,  4. 
Harpur,  103. 

Anne=Wyrley,  153. 

Catherine=Walker,  97. 

Dorothy =Hoorde,  105. 

Eleanor  (Rushall),  105. 

Elizabeth=Leigh,  101,  105. 

John,  101, 105. 

Margaret  (Bromley),  105. 

Margaret  (Cocke),  105. 

Robert,  105. 

Thomas,  97. 

William,  105,  153. 

=Egerton,  105. 

= Kingston,  105. 

Harville,  Harry,  24. 

Harward,  Catherine  (Hawkes),  97. 

Hassall,  Ellen  (Cholmeley),  62. 

Haman,  62. 
Hastange,  20,  21,  93. 

John,  20. 

Philip,  21. 

Richard,  21. 

Robert,  20,  21. 
Hastings,  Anne=Cholmeley,  63. 

Dorothy  (Port),  82. 

George,  82. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Hastings — continued. 

—  (Port),  81. 
Haughton,  John,  131. 

Margaret  (Soruerford),  131. 

Margaret=Somerford,  131. 

Roger,  131. 
Hawkens  alias  Hawkes,  97. 
Hawkes,  97,  97. 

Anne=Carter,  97. 

Catherine=Harward,  97. 

Catlierine=Suow,  97. 

Elizabeth  (Reynolds),  97. 

Hillary,  97. 

Joan  ( Walker),  97. 

John,  97. 

Kenelrn,  28. 

Mary  (Banaster),  97. 

Richard,  5,  97. 

Thomas,  97. 

William,  97. 
Hawkesyard,  127. 
Hay,  88,  161. 

German,  86,  88. 

Isabella=Wastneys,  86,  88,  161. 
Haydoek,  Joan=Leigh,  101. 
Haynes,  Prances  (Stamford),  136. 

James,  136. 
Haywood,  53. 

Anne=Bowyer,  55. 

William,  55. 
Hazlewood,      Elizabeth      (Whorwood), 
151. 

Prances  (Dunham),  106. 

John,  106, 151. 
Helinge,  Margaret  (Noel),  118. 

Richard,  118. 
Henshaw,  136. 

John,  7,  15. 

=  Stafford,  136. 

= Stamford,  133. 

Henstall,  103. 

Hercv,  Elizabeth  (Stanley),  52. 

John,  52. 
Herle,  Catherine  (Harcourt),  93. 

John,  93. 
Heron  ville,  153. 

John,  71. 
Heveningham,  9. 

Anne  (Pitzherbert),  74. 

Dorothy,  17. 

Dorothy  (Stanley),  52. 

Erasmus,  52. 

Mary  (Moyle),  52. 

Walter,  9,  74. 
Hewet,  6,  23, 103. 

Catherine  (Bowles),  104. 

Eliz'ibeth=Hexstall,  104. 

John,  6,  23, 104. 

Margaret=Stockley,  6,  104. 
Hexstall,  Elizabeth  (Hewet),  104. 

Thomas,  72,  104. 


Higginbotham,  John,  7,  15. 
Hill,  98,  98. 

Constance  (Oglethorpe),  98. 

Dorothy  (Pitzherbert),  98. 

Edward,  98. 

Elizabeth,  98. 

Prancis,  98. 

George,  35. 

Hugh,  5,  98. 

Isabel,  98. 

Isabel  (Ellis),  98. 

Isabella-AVood=Littleton,  109. 

Jane  (Prancis),  98. 

Joan,  98. 

Joan  (Ashenhurst),  35. 

John,  98. 

Nicholas,  98. 

Richard,  98. 

Robert,  109. 

Thomas,  98. 
Hillary,  22, 115. 

Joan=Moseley,  115. 

Roger,  22, 115. 
Hinton,  Mary=Moreton,  114. 

(Cholmeley),62. 

Hochkis, =Whorwood,  151. 

Hogetts,  Anne  (Wyrley),  154. 

John,  154. 
Holland,  Jane  (Arblaster),  34. 

William,  34. 
Hollyman,  Joyce  (Whorwood),  151. 

William,  151. 
Hollyns,  Hugh,  7,  15. 
Holmes,  George,  28. 
Holstock,  Audley=Broughton,  61 

William,  61. 
Holt,  Constance  (Littleton),  110. 

Thomas,  110. 
Homersley,  John,  28. 

Thomas,  7,  15. 
Honford,  Catherine =Mainwaring,  113. 

William,  113. 
Honton,  Ralph,  72. 
Hoorde,  82, 139. 

Dorothy  (Harpur),  105. 

Prancisca=Parmer,  105. 

Jane=Giffard,  81. 

Joau=Giffard,  82. 

John,  140. 

Joyce  (Stapleton),  82. 

Thomas,  82,  105. 

William,  140. 

=Trentham,  140. 

,  139. 

Hopkins,  Elizabeth =Strethay,  137. 
Hopton,  Elizabeth = Noel,  118. 

Elizabeth  =  Peryente,  118. 
Hop  was,  Anne=Endesore,  68. 
John,  68. 
Richard,  68. 
Sibilla,  68. 


INDEX, 


181 


Hopwas — continued. 

William,  68. 
Home,  Jane  (Moreton),  114. 

John,  114. 

Horton, = Trentkam,  139. 

Hotham,  John,  76. 

Maud  =Fitzwilliam,  76. 
Houghton,  Alice=Fowler,  78, 

Alice=Hulcote,  78. 

John,  78. 
Howard,  Elizabeth  (Stafford),  132. 

Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  132. 
Howe,  William,  11, 15. 

Howford, =Vise,  144. 

Hownhill,  103. 
Huddleston,  58. 

Anne = Bowes,  53. 

Anthony,  53. 

John,  53. 

Lucy— Brooke,  53,  56,  58. 

Margery  (Smith),  53,  56,  58. 

Eichard,  53,  56,  58. 

Sybel  (Croftes),  53. 

William,  53. 

(Waynman),  53. 

Hugh,  Cecilia=Leigh,  101. 

John,  101. 

Thomas,  101. 
Hulcote,  Alice  (Houghton),  78. 
Humett,  99. 

Agnes=Wake,  99. 

Engram,  99. 

John,  99. 

Jordanus,  99. 

Juliana  (De  la  Hay),  99. 

Hawisia,  99. 

Henry,  99. 

Eichard,  99. 

Thomas,  99. 

William,  99. 

=Grey,  99. 

Humfreston,  Cassandra=Brodoke,  81. 

Cassandra=Giffard,  80. 

Thomas,  80. 

Hunkes, =Littleton,  109. 

Hunt,  lOO,  100. 

Amice,  100. 

Amice  (Cave),  100. 

Anne,  100. 

Derverguld  (Digby),  100. 

Dorothy=Lusher,  100. 

Elizabeth  (Eeynes),  100. 

Francis,  100. 

Gertrude=Lany,  100. 

Gertrude= Sacheverell,  100. 

John,  100. 

Margaret=Eeynes,  100. 

Mary  (Lusher),  100. 

Eemige,  100. 

Eobert,  100. 

Susan=Francis,  100. 


Hunt — continued. 

Thomas,  100. 
Huntingdon,  William  Clinton,  Earl  of, 

76. 
Hurst,  139. 

Husee, (Trentham),  140. 

Hyde,  John,  23. 

Ilderton,  125. 

Joan=Eobinson,  125. 
Illary,  Eoger,  22. 
Ilsley,  Humfrey,  28. 
Ingham,  93. 
Ingleton,  Joyce=Tyrrell,  141. 

Eobert/lll. 
Ireland,  David,  140. 

Mary=Trentham,  140. 
Ive,  Alice=Grobbere,  105. 

Geoffrey,  105. 

Jackson,  Anne=Fern,  71. 

Eoger,  71. 

=Unwin,  143. 

James,  30. 

Edmund,  5,  30. 

Walter,  30. 

Jelom, =Whorwood,  149. 

Jervis,  Cicely  (Vise),  145. 

John,  9,  14,  145. 
Jordan,  Eichard,  72. 
Jortz,  Isabella  (Wastneys),  162. 

Eobert,  162. 
Joscelyn,  Anne=Bagot,  40. 

Elizabeth=Fitzherbert,  72. 

Ealph,  72. 

Thomas,  40. 

=Fitzherbert,  74. 

Kebell, =Bowes,  53. 

Kedwelley,  Laurence,  126. 

Mary=Eudyerd,  126. 
Kenryke,  62. 

King,  Alice  (Bolinghull),  68. 
Kingsley,  Catherine=Macclesfield,  111, 

John,  111. 
Kingston,  Anthony,  105. 

(Harpur),  105. 

Kinnersley,  7,  27. 

Anne=Cotton,  92. 

Anne=Strethay,  137. 

Anthony,  7. 

Dorothy  (Pettit),  118,  124. 

John,  118,  124. 

Thomas,  19,  92,  137. 

William,  72. 

=Grosvenor,  91. 

Kitson,  Jane  (Paget),  123. 

Thomas,  123. 
Knightley,  114. 

Cassandra=Giffard,  80,  81, 

Cassandra=Langtree,  81, 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Knightley — continued. 

Isabella=Moreton,  114. 

John,  81. 

Robert,  114. 
Knipersley,  53. 

Catherine=Bowyer,  54. 

Ellen  ( Venables),  54. 

Robert,  50,  54. 
Knippe,  Edward,  137. 

Jane  (Stamford),  137. 
Knivet,  Anne  (Harcourt),  93. 

Catherine=Carey,  123. 

Catherine=Paget,  123. 

Henry,  123. 

John,  93. 
Kniveton,  40. 

Anne  (Bagot),  40. 

Einnia=Bagot,  40. 

John,  40. 

Robert,  40. 

(Bagot),  40. 

Knottesford,  Elizabeth=Rugeley,  128. 

John,  128. 

Lane,  4. 

Catherine  (Trentham),  140. 

Edward,  80. 

Margaret  (Eowler),  80. 

Thomas,  4, 18,  140. 

(Harcourt),  95. 

Langham,  Joyce=Everard,  69. 
Langley,  Elizabeth=Leigh,  101. 
Langsdon,  Stephen,  16. 
Langton,  Eleanor=Cholrneley,  63. 

Thomas,  63. 
Langtree,  Cassandra  (Knightley),  81. 

John,  81. 
Lany,  Gertrude  (Hunt),  100. 

Thomas,  100. 
Latham,  56,  57. 
Latimer,  George  Nevill,  Lord,  116. 

Richard  Neville,  Lord,  116. 
Latus,  Rose  (Crompton),  67. 
Lawton,  Anne=Bartram,  43. 

James,  43. 

John,  155. 

Margery=Yardley,  155. 

Warburghe=Bartram,  43. 
Laynham,  Catherine=Arblaster,  34. 

Thomas,  34. 
La  Zouche,  93. 
Lea  or  Lee. 

Anne  (Paget),  123. 

Edward,  28. 

Elizabeth=Aston,  37. 

Ellen=Stanley,  52. 

Erancis,  28. 

Henry,  123. 

Hugh,  153. 

Humfrey,  67. 

James,  52. 


Lea  or  Lee — continued. 

Joan==Dickens,  67. 

Judith  (Wyrley),  154. 

Margery=Fowler,  78. 

Mary,  123. 

Mary=Fowler,  78. 

Mary=Tyrrell,  142. 

Mary=Wrottesley,  153. 

Reginald,  37. 

Robert,  28. 

William,  154. 
Leeke,  Catherine=Eoljambe,  77. 

John,  77. 

Leftwich, =Harcourt,  95. 

Leger,  Orabel=Harcourt,  119. 
Leicester,  Anne=Mainwaring,  113. 

Ralph,  113. 
Leigh,  5,  lOl,  102,  103,  103. 

Alice  (Alcock),  101. 

Alice  (Barker),  101. 

Anne,  102. 

Anne  (Farmer),  102. 

Catherine,  102. 

Catherine  (Dunham),  102,  106. 

Catherine  (Spencer),  102. 

Cecilia  (Hugh),  101. 

Dorothy,  102. 

Dulcia= Stanley,  52. 

Edward,  5, 102,  106. 

Elizabeth,  101,  102. 

Elizabeth  (Biddulph),  51. 

Elizabeth  (Harpur),  101,  105. 

Elizabeth  (Langley),  101. 

Elizabeth=Bartram,  43. 

Elizabeth=Harcourt,  102. 

Frances,  102. 

Godfrey,  102. 

Helena,  101. 

Henry,  102,  106. 

Howard,  102. 

Humfrey,  51. 

Joan  (Haydock),  101. 

John,  43,  101,  102. 

Lewis,  102. 

Margaret  (Danyers),  101. 

Mary,  102. 

Mary  (Sparks),  101. 

Matilda  (Norley),  101. 

Maud,  102. 

Peter,  101. 

Ralph,  101. 

Richard,  101,  102. 

Robert,  101. 

Roger,  101. 

Rowland,  102. 

Rowland,   Bishop  of  Coventry  and 
Lichfield,  79. 

Sibyl=Fowler,  79. 

Thomas,  101,  102. 

William,  101, 102,  105. 

(Berkeley),  102. 


INDEX. 


183 


Leigh — continued. 

(Harington),  102. 

(Lowe),  102. 

=Hanmer,  102. 

=Paston,  101. 

Leighton, (Trentham),  140. 

Lester,  Margery=Fowler,  78. 

Mary=Fowler,  78. 
L'Estrange,  Guy,  97. 

Margaret=Noel,  97. 
Leuknell,  Eleanor=Harcourt,  95. 
Leveson,  25,  106,  106. 

Agnes  (Clement),  106. 

Anne,  108. 

Anne  (Wrottesley),  107. 

Anne=Stamford,  108,  133. 

Christian,  107. 

Edward,  108. 

Eleanor,  108. 

Elizabeth,  108. 

Elizabeth  (Arden),  107. 

Elizabeth  (Eoulke),  107. 

Elizabeth=Aston,  39. 

Elizabeth=Bowyer,  54. 

Elizabeth="\Yoodshaw,  107. 

Eulke,  107. 

Geoffrey,  106. 

Helena  (Clayton),  107. 

Isabel,  107. 

James,  39,  83,  106. 

Jane  (Bradbury),  106. 

Jane  (Poultney),  107. 

Joan,  107. 

John,  106,  107,  108,  133. 

Joyce,  107, 108. 

Joyce  (Ashfield),  108. 

Joyce  (Birmingham),  107. 

Joyce=Giffard,  83. 

Juliana,  107. 

Margaret,  107,  108. 

Margaret=Bidley,  108. 

Margery  (Fitzclement),  106. 

Martha,  108. 

Mary,  107. 

Mary  (Brooke),  108. 

Michael,  108. 

Nicholas,  106. 

Eichard,  25,  39,  106,  107,  108. 

Thomas,  11,  18,  107,  108. 

Walter,  107,  108. 

William,  107. 

(Bretayne),  107. 

(Bushbury),  107. 

,  18. 

Lewknor,  Eleanor=Harcourt,  95,  96. 
Linaker,  Joan=Bagshaw,  41. 

Eobert,  41. 
Lisle,  116. 

Lister,  Edith  (Eitzherbert),  75. 
Littleton,  4,  26,  108. 

Alice  (Cokayne),  110. 


Littleton — cont  inued. 

Alice  (Winnesbury),  109. 

Anne,  109. 

Anne  (Botreux),  109. 

Anthony,  109. 

Barbara=Folyot,  110. 

Barbara=Gower,  110. 

Bridget,  109. 

Bridget  (Pakington),  109. 

Constance=Foljambe,  110. 

Constance=Holt,  110. 

Edward,  4,  109,  110,  114. 

Eleanor=Bassett,  45. 

Eleanor=Cotes,  45. 

Elizabeth,  109. 

Elizabeth  (Coningsby),  109. 

Elizabeth  (Stanley),  109. 

Elizabeth  (Talbot),  109. 

Ellen,  109. 

Ellen  (Swinnerton),  109. 

Ellen  (Welsh),  38,  108. 

Francis,  109. 

George,  109. 

Gilbert,  109. 

Grace,  110. 

Isabella- Wood  (Hill),  109. 

James,  110. 

Jane,  110. 

Joan  alias  Ellen=Aston,  38. 

Joan=Aston,  109. 

John,  38,  109. 

Katherine,  109. 

Lucy,  109. 

Margaret,  109,  110. 

Margaret  (Devereux),  110. 

Margaret=Newport,  109. 

Margery,  109. 

Mary,  110. 

Mary  (Whittington),  38,  108. 

Matilda,  109. 

Eichard,  109,  110. 

Eoger,  109. 

Thomas,  38,  108,  109,  110,  114. 

William,  38,  108. 

(Hunkes),  109. 

(Moreton),  114. 

(Quartermain),  108. 

— — =Westcote,  108. 

Lloyd,  Eleanor  (Smith),  130. 

Eichard,  130. 
Longford,  Dorothy  (Fitzherbert),  76. 

I)orothy=Fitzherbert,  73,  75. 

Elizabeth  (Okeover),  122. 

Nicholas,  76,  122. 

Ealph,  73,  75,  76. 
Longsdon,  Stephen,  16. 
Lovate,  John,  28. 
Lowe,  Edmund,  25. 

Humfrey,  28. 

=Leigh,  102. 

Lownes,  Elizabeth  (Ashenhurst),  35. 


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THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Lownes — continued. 

Thomas,  35. 
Lucy,  Anne= Aston,  39. 

'Thomas,  39. 
Ludford,  Elizabeth  (Harcourt),  95. 

(Harcourt),  95. 

Ludlow,  Isabel=Fitzherbert,  72. 
Lusher,  Dorothy  (Hunt),  100. 

Mary=Hunt,  100. 

Nicholas,  100. 
Luttlehay,  Robert,  160. 
Lynne,  Elizabeth=Plautney,  125. 

William,  125. 
Lyseux,  HO. 

Beatrix,  110. 

Elizabeth,  110. 

Hugh,  110. 

Isabel,  110. 

James,  110. 

John,  110. 

=Bassett,  48,  110. 

Macclesfield,  111,  111. 

Alice,  111. 

Andrew,  111. 

Catherine,  111. 

Catherine  (Fowke),  111. 

Catherine  (Kingsley),  111. 

Edward,  111. 

Elizabeth,  111. 

Elizabeth=Sutton,  111. 

Ellen,  111. 

Erancis,  111,  112. 

Helena  (Fitton),  111. 

Humfrey,  111. 

John,  111,  112. 

Juliana  (Salter),  111. 

Margaret,  111. 

Margaret  (Erdeswick),  111. 

Margery,  111. 

Nicholas,  111,  112. 

Peter,  111. 

Ralph,  17,  111,  112. 

Rawlin,  112. 

Richard,  111,  112. 

Simon,  111. 

Susanna,  111. 

Ursula  (Roos),  111. 

William,  9,  111,  112. 

(Watton),  111. 

Madder,  William,  5. 
Madeley,  Thomas,  7,  14. 
Madock,  Humfrey,  28. 
Mainwaring,  30,  113, 113. 

Alice,  113. 

Alice  (Boghey),  113. 

Anne,  113. 

Anne  (Cholmeley),  62. 

Anne  (Leicester),  113. 

Annc=Roos,  113. 

Catherine  (Honford),  113. 


Mainwaring — continued. 
Charles,  138. 
Edmond,  113. 
Edward,  9,  18,  30,  113. 
Elizabeth,  113. 
Isabel=Thickness,  138. 

Jane  (Cradock),  113. 

John,  113. 

Mary,  113. 

Nicholas,  113. 

Peres,  113. 

Philip,  113. 

Randall,  62. 

Randolph,  113. 

Thomas,  113. 

William,  113. 
Malines,  93. 
Malory,  39. 
Manning,  26. 
Manyfold,  Arthur,  35. 

Grace  (Ashenhurst),  35. 

John,  35. 
Marbury,  155. 

=Yardley,  156. 

Marmion,  Philip,  160. 

Philippa,  99. 

Robert,  99. 
Marnham,  John,  72. 
Marshall,  72,  74,  139,  145, 146. 

Catherine=.Trentham,  140. 

Elizabeth=Fitzherbert,  73,  75. 

John,  73,  140,  159,  160. 

Maud  (Skrimshire),  129. 

William,  160. 
Martyn,  9S. 

=Arblaster,  34. 

Mawissin,  Robert,  24. 
Mawreward,  Thomas,  24. 
Meringe,  Margery=Bassett,  49. 

William,  49. 
Meuland,   Roger,   Bishop    of  Lichfield, 
59. 

=Napton,  59. 

Meverell,  7. 

Anne  (Dunham),  106. 

Dorothy=Coyney,  65. 

Elizabeth=Bassett,  45,  46. 

Elizabeth=Cokayne,  45,  46. 

George,  106. 

Margaret  (Trentham),  140. 

Sampson,  7,  19,  140. 

Thomas,  45,  46,  65. 
Meyncll,  44,  45. 

Alice=Aston,  44. 

Anno  (Yardley),  155. 

Cecilia,,  44. 

Giles,  44. 

Hugh,  44,  46. 

Joan  (Ward),  44. 

Joan=Clinton,  44. 

Marg  iret=Dethick,  44. 


INDEX. 


185 


Meynell — continued. 

Richard,  44. 

Robert,  155. 

Thomasin=Dethick,  44,  46. 

Tkomasin=Erdeswick,  44. 
Michel,  Elizabeth=Cholrneley,  63. 

Elizabeth=Thickness,  139. 
Middlemore,  Elizabeth  (Noel),  118. 

Simon,  118. 

Middleton, (Treutham),  140. 

Milburne,  136. 

Eleanor=Moore,  136. 

Simon,  136. 
Miller,  Jo3'ce=Ashenhurst,  35. 

alias  Feme,  John,  35. 
Milles,  Anne  (Vise),  145. 

Richard,  4,  17. 

Thomas,  145. 
Milward,  Henrv,  33. 

Phillis=Adderley,  33. 

Phillis=Ferne,  70. 

Robert,  70. 
Minours,  27,  30. 

Edward,  140. 

Erancis,  7. 

Humfrey,  6. 

John,  127. 

Joyce  (Trentham),  140. 

Ralph,  7,  30. 

Rose=Thirkell,  127. 

Thomas,  72. 

Mirfield, (Fitzwilliani),  76. 

Mitton,  Edward,  119. 

John,  19. 

Mary=Noel,  119. 

alias  Harpesfield,  John,  4. 
Mollins,  Elizabeth  (Thickness),  139. 

John,  139. 
Montacute,   John   Neville,  Marquis  of, 

53,  77. 
Montague,  Edward,  141. 

Mary=Tyrrell,  141. 
Montfort,  37. 

Alice=Noel,  119. 

Anne  (Fowler),  80. 

Francis,  6,  20. 

Hugh,  119. 

Simon,  89. 

William,  7, 15,  80. 

(Gresley),  89. 

Montgomery,  Anne=Bagot,  40. 

Dorothy=Giffard,  81,  82. 

Ellen=Bassett,  47. 

John,  81,  82. 

Margaret  (Dethick),  46. 

Matilda=Clarell,  89. 

Nicholas,  40,  47,  89. 
Moore,  Eleanor  (Milburne),  136. 

John,  136. 

Margaret=Stamford,  136. 

=Corbin,  67. 


Moreton,  114,  114. 

Adam,  4,  114. 

Alice  (Dickens),  67,  114. 

Alice=Dickens,  68,  114. 

Alice=Pei*sons,  114. 

Catherine=Fowler,  79. 

Constance,  68,  114. 

Edward,  4,  68,  114. 

Elizabeth=Stapleton,  114. 

Elizabeth=Yardley,  155. 

Isabel  (Knightley),  114. 

Isabel=Egginton,  68,  114. 

James,  114. 

Jane=Horne,  114. 

John,  114. 

Joyce=Rowlev,  114. 

Margaret,  68,  114. 

Margaret=Fowler,  79. 

Margery  (Sheppard),  114. 

Mary,  68, 114. 

Mary  (Hinton),  114. 

Matthew,  67,  68,  114. 

Richard,  114. 

Thomas,  114. 

William,  155. 

(Downe),  114. 

=Eittleton,  114. 

Morley,  Amphelissa=Wastneys,  88. 
Morres,  William,  28. 
Moseley,  115,  115. 

Agnes  (Bate),  115. 

Audrey  (Wyrley,,  115. 

Avery  (Wyrley),  154. 

Christian  (Costliff),  115. 

Cornelius,  115. 

Eleanor  (Specheley),  115. 

Elizabeth,  115. 

Elizabeth=Toll,  115. 

Felis  (Schampion),  115. 

Isabel  (Harcourt),  115. 

Joan  (Hillary),  115. 

John,  115. 

Lucretia  (Whitgreave),  115,  147. 

Margaret,  115. 

Margaret  (Blithe),  115. 

Robert,  11,  115,  147,  154. 

Roger,  115. 

William,  115,  147. 
Moton,  Alice  (Bassett),  49. 

Robert,  49. 

Thomas,  49. 
Mowlisley,  see  Moseley. 
Moyle,  Isabel  (Stanley),  52. 

Mary=Heveningham,  52. 

Walter,  52. 
Mulsho,  John,  85. 

Margaret=Gresley,  85,  89. 
Mundeford,  Bridget= Fowler,  79. 

Osbert,  79. 
Muschamp,  129. 
Mylner,  John,  126. 

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186 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Mylner — con  t  in  u  ed. 

Margery=Rudyerd,  126. 
Napton,  58,  59. 

Adam,  59. 

Henry,  58,  59. 

Julian=Broughton,  59. 

Roger,  58,  59. 

(Charlton),  59. 

(Mewland),  59. 

=Broughton,  59. 

Narborough,  25. 
Nedeham,  9. 

Elizabeth=Ferne,  71. 

Prances  (Aston),  38. 

John,  9,  71. 

Margery=Coyney,  66. 

Robert,  38,  66. 

Neelson, ==Rudyerd,  126. 

Nelson,  Mary=Whitgreave,  148. 
Nevill,  116,  116. 

Alan,  157. 

Alice  (Rydel),  116. 

Anne  (Greville),  116. 

Elizabeth  (Beauchamp),  116. 

Fulke,  116. 

Francis,  116. 

George,  Lord  Abergavenny,  132. 

George,  Lord  Latimer,  116. 

Henry,  116. 

Isabei=Smith,  53. 

Jane  (Bourchier),  116. 

John,  116. 

John,  Marquis  of  Montacute,  53, 77. 

Lucy=Browne,  77. 

Lucy=Fitzwilliam;  77. 

Mary  (Stafford),  132. 

Ralph,  Earl  of  Westmorland,  116. 

Richard,  Lord  Latimer,  116. 

Thomas,  116. 
Newman,  Elizabeth  (Grosvenor),  91. 

Thomas,  116. 
Newport,  23. 

Edward,  109. 

Margaret  (Littleton),  109. 

William,  23. 
Newton,  Nazaretha=Paget,  123. 

Nazaretha=Southwell,  123. 
Nigel  de  Gresley,  87. 

William  fit'z,  86. 
Noel,  9,  93,  117. 

Alice  (Montfort),  119. 

Alice  (Wyverston),  117. 

Alice=Harcourt,  97,  119. 

Andrew,  118. 

Anne,  119. 

Anne  (Crompton),  118. 

Anne  (Fowler),  118. 

Anne  (Greteham),  119. 

Anthony,  118. 

Arthur,'  117,  119. 

Bridget,  118. 


Noel — continued. 

Charles-Perrott,  118. 

Cicely,  117. 

Cicely=Cross,  118. 

Dorothy  (Pettit),  118,  124, 

Dorothy=Whitgreave,  118,  147. 

Edward,  118,  119. 

Elizabeth  (Hopton),  118. 

Elizabeth=Ponte,  118. 

Elizabeth=Middlemore,  118. 

Elizabeth=Silvester,  119. 

Ellen,  119. 

George,  118. 

Grace,  119. 

Henry,  118,  119. 

Humfrey,  118. 

Isabel=Chitwode,  117. 

James,  6,  117,  119. 

Jane  (Draycott),  117. 

Jane  (Sonde),  117. 

Joan=Dufton,  119. 

John,  117,118,  119,  120. 

Joyce-=Pettit,  118,  124. 

Judith,  118. 

Leonard,  118. 

Lucy,  118. 

Margaret  (L'Estrange),  97. 

Margaret  (Strange),  119. 

Margaret=Helinge,  118. 

Martyn,  28. 

Mary  (Aspland),  117. 

Mary  (Mitton),  119. 

Maud  (Brereton),  117. 

Nicholas,  119. 

Philip,  9,  117,  118,  119. 

Prudence=Whitmore,  119. 

Richard,  117,  119. 

Robert,   117,  118,    119,  120,    124, 
147. 

Theodosia,  118. 

Thomas,  97,  117,  118,  119,  124. 

Walter,  118. 

William,  117,  118. 

(Flower,  widow),  118. 

(Harington),  118. 

(Poole),  117. 

=Stamford,  136. 

Norley,  Matilda=Leigh,  101. 
Norreys,  Jane=Rudyerd,  126. 

William,  126. 

North, =Adderley,  33. 

Norton,  Edward,  148. 

Elizabeth=Whitgreave,  148. 

Offcley,  Anne=Unwin,  143. 

John,  143. 
Oglethorpe,  Constance=Hill,  98. 
Okeovcr,  27,  120, 120,  146. 

A^nes  (Bradborne),  121. 

Catherine,  122. 

Catherine  (Aston),  121. 


INDEX. 


187 


Okeover — continued. 

Catherine  (Dunham),  121. 

Catherine=Ashenliurst,  35. 

Dorothy=  Welles,  122,  146. 

Eleanor=Taylour,  122. 

Elizabeth,  122. 

Elizabeth  (Babington),  121. 

Elizabeth=Longford,  122. 

Elizabeth=Philiips,  122. 

Ellen=Endesore,  69. 

Paith,  122. 

Geoffrey,  120. 

Hugh,  120,  121. 

Humfrey,  38,  121. 

Isabel,  121. 

Isabel  (Aston),  38. 

Jane=Cokayne,  121. 

John,  121. 

Margaret  (Dethick),  121. 

Matilda,  120. 

Matilda  (Bassett),  45,  121. 

Nicholas,  121. 

Philip,  7,  19,  35,  71,  121. 

Ealph,  45,  69,  72, 120, 121, 122,  146. 

Richard,  120. 

Robert,  120. 

Roger,  121. 

Rowland,  122. 

Sarah,  122. 

Sibilla  (White),  122. 

Susanna=Pranknell,  122. 

Thomas,  121. 

William,  121. 
Orchard,  John,  10,  14. 
Orinus,  120. 

Ralph  fitz,  120. 
Osbaldeston,  Anne=Thickness,  139. 

Elizabeth=Rudyerd,  126. 

John,  126, 127. 

Temperance=Rudyerd,  127. 
Osborne,  Mrs.,  79. 
Oteley,  Joan=Astlev,  36. 

John,  36. 

Richard,  28. 

(Blount),  36. 

Overton,  153. 

Alice,  50. 

Cicely=Biddulph,  50. 

Ellen,  50. 

Margaret,  50. 

Thomas,  50. 

Werburga,  50. 

William,  Bishop  of  Lichfield,  10. 
Oxford,  John,  Earl  of,  108. 

Padley,  72. 

Paget,  26,  122,  122. 

Anne,  Lady,  122. 

Anne  (Preston),  122. 

Anne=Lee,  123. 

Anne=Smith,  122. 


Paget — continued. 

Catherine  (Knivet),  123. 

Charles,  123. 

Dorothy =WTilloughby,  123. 

Edward,  123. 

Eleanor=Clerk,  123. 

Eleanor=Palmer,  123. 

Elizabeth,  123. 

Ethelreda=Allen,  123. 

Griselda=Rivett,  123. 

Henry,  Lord,  123. 

Jane^Kitson,  123. 

John,  122. 

Nazaretha  (Newton),  123. 

Robert,  122. 

Thomas,  Lord,  123. 

William,  122,  123. 
Pakenham,  Agnes=Pitzwilliam,  77. 

Agnes=Sydney,  77. 
Pakington,  Bridget=Littleton,  109. 

John,  109. 
Palmer,  Alice=Stamford,  133. 

Christopher,  134. 

Eleanor  (Paget),  1 23. 

Eleanor=Stamford,  134. 

Jerome,  123. 

John,  133. 

Mary,  123. 
Panckeney,  Henry,  18. 
Parker,  Thomas,  7,  15. 

Paston, (Leigh),  101. 

Pateson,  Richard,  29. 
Pegge,  Jane=Rugele}r,  128. 
Pembridge,  Pulk,  22. 
Percy,  Eleanor=Stafford,  132. 

Henry,  Earl  of  Northumberland,  132. 
Perkins,  Roger,  28. 
Perrott,  Anne  (Rudyerd),  127. 

Anne=Persehouse,  127. 

William,  127. 
Persall,  Adam,  115. 

Catherine=Costliffe,  115. 

Thomas,  17. 
Persehouse,  Anne  (Rudyerd),  127. 

John,  6,  15,  127. 
Persons,  Alice  (Moreton),  114. 

George,  lit. 
Perton,  John,  23,  71. 
Peryente,  Elizabeth  (Hopton),  118. 

John,  118. 
Peshall,  10. 

John,  95. 

Robert,  10. 

Thomas,  10. 

(Harcourt),  95. 

Petit,  93,  124, 124. 

Anne,  124. 

Andrew,  124. 

Cassandra,  124. 

Dorothy,  124. 

Dorothy=Kinner.sley,  118,  124. 


188 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Petit — continued. 

Dorothv=Noel,  118,  124. 

Henry,  10,  14,  118,  124. 

Jane,  124. 

John,  124. 

Joyce  (Noel),  118,  124. 

Richard,  124. 

Simon,  124. 

Thomas,  10,  14,  118,  124. 

"Walter,  124. 

William,  124. 

(Allen),  124. 

Petre,  William,  82. 

=Talhot,  82. 

Peverell,  Elizabeth  (Adderley),  33. 

William,  33. 
Peyto,  Eleanor  (Aston),  39. 

Goodith=Wyrley,  154. 

Hmnfrey,  154. 
Phillips,  Ambrose,  154. 

Dennis=Cholineley,  63. 

Edward,  122. 

Elizabeth  (Okeover),  122. 

Grace  (Wyrley),  154. 

William,  28. 
Pickman,  Margaret=Smith,  130. 

Ralph,  130. 
Picto,  Francis,  4,  16. 
Pidcock,  Anne,  134. 

Dorothy  (Stamford),  134. 

Prances,  134. 

Robert,  134. 

Vincent,  134. 
Pigott,  Eleanor=Somerford,  131. 

Robert,  131. 
Pilkington,  Matilda=Arderne,  57. 
Pilletonhalle,  John,  72. 
Piot,  Alderman,  138. 
Pipe,  21,  24. 

James,  24,  24. 

Robert,  24. 

Thomas,  21. 

Pixstock, =Cholmeley,  62. 

Plantney,  125,  125. 

Alexander,  125. 

Daniel,  125. 

Edward,  125. 

Elizabeth,  125. 

Elizabeth  (Lynne),  125. 

Elizabeth  (Rogers),  125. 

Henry,  11,  125. 

Joan  (Creswell),  125. 

John,  125. 

Margaret,  125. 

Samuel,  125. 

Thomas,  125. 
Poole,  John,  127,  129. 

Margaret,  Countess  of  Salisbury,132. 

Margaret=Skrimshire,  129. 

Richard,  132. 
Ursula=Stafford.  132. 


Poole — continued. 

=Noel,  117. 

=Thirkell,  127. 

Popham,  93. 

Port,  Dorothy  (Fitzherbert),  76. 

Dorothy=Hastings,  82. 

Elizabeth  (Giffard),  82. 

Elizabeth=Gerard,  82. 

Joan  (Fitzherbert),  73,  74. 

John,  7, 15,  73,  74,  81,  82. 

Margaret=Stanhope,  82. 

(Giffard),  81. 

=Gerarde,  81. 

=Hastings,  81. 

Porter,  Joyce  (Biddulph),  51. 

Ralph,  51. 

Powell, =Cholmeley,  63. 

Powtrell,  Thomas,  49. 

(Bassett),  49. 

Praers,  103,  113. 
Preston,  122. 

Anne=Paget,  122. 
Priestland,  Catherine  (Cholmeley),  62. 

Richard,  62. 
Pulteney,  Anne  (Shirley),  38. 

Francis,  38. 

Jane=Leveson,  107. 

Richard,  107. 

Thomas,  38,  107. 
Purferey,  Margery  (Fitzherbert),  75. 

Nicholas,  75. 

(Windsor),  92. 

Pyott,  Thomas,  7,  15. 

Quatremain, =Littleton,  108. 

Quilet,  Alan,  68. 

Anne  (Comberford),  68. 
Quincy,  Orabell=Harcourt,  97. 

Robert,  97. 

Ralph  fitz  Orme,  120. 
Rayne,  Ellen  (Bowyer),  54. 

Randulph,  54. 
Rayner,  Margaret  (Ashenhurst),  35. 

Nicholas,  35. 
Rawson,  Catherine=Crompton,  66. 

Catherine=Richardson,  66,  67. 
Bead,  03. 
Repington,  Edward,  134. 

Frances  (Stamford),  134. 

Humfrey,  134. 

John,  134. 

Thomas,  134. 
Reresby,  Ralph,  76. 

Thomas,  76. 

(Fitzwilliam),  76. 

Restwood,  Catherine=Fitzherbert,  73. 
Reynes,  Andrew,  100. 

Elizabeth=Hunt,  100. 

Margaret  (Hunt),  100. 

Robert,  100. 


INDEX. 


189 


Reynold, =Broughton,  59. 

Reynolds,  Elizabeth=Hawkes,  97. 

Richard,  97. 
Richardson,  Catherine  (Rawson),  66,  67. 

Catherine=Crompton,  67. 

Oliver,  67. 
Rickthorn,  Joan=Whorwood,  151. 

Thomas,  11. 

William,  151. 
Ridgley,  Thomas,  6. 

=Thickness,  138. 

Ridley,  Margaret  (Leveson),  108. 

Richard,  108. 
Ridware,  72. 

Isabel=Bassett,  45. 

Isabel=Bradborne,  45. 

Richard,  45. 
Rivett,  Anne,  123. 

Griselda  (Paget),  123. 
Robert  fitz  Hardulf,  88,  156. 
Robert  fitz  Walter,  156,  157. 
Robins,    Elizabeth,    widow=Harconrt, 

92. 
Robinson,  125. 

Dorothy=Harcourt,  92,  125. 

George,  125. 

Grace  (Fitzherbert),  75,  92,  125. 

Joan  (Ilderton),  125. 

John,  125. 

Nicholas,  125. 

Thomas,  20,  125. 

William,  92,  125. 
Robsant,  Dorothy  (Wyrley),  154. 

Robert,  154. 
Rockley,  141. 
Rogers,  Elizabeth=Plantney,  125. 

Hugh,  140. 

(Trentham),  140. 

Rolston,  Elizabeth=Grubbere,  105. 

John,  105. 

William,  6. 
Roos,  30. 

Anne  (Mainwaring),  113. 

Francis,  17,  60,  111,  112. 

Mary=Broughton,  60. 

Peter,  10,  30. 

Thomas,  113. 

Ursula,  112. 

Ursula=Macclesfield,  111. 
Rothewall,  Dorothy  (Ashenhurst),  35. 

John,  35. 
Rothewood,  Anthony,  71. 

Elizabeth  (Feme),  71. 
Rowley,  Jane  (Rugeley),  128. 

Joyce  (Moreton),  114. 

Thomas,  10,  14,  114,  128. 
Roxeter,  Anne  (Somerford),  131. 

Edward,  131. 
Rudyerd,  126,  126. 

Alice  (Brereton),  126. 

Alice=Camden,  127. 


Rudyerd — continued. 

Ambrosia,  126. 

Anne=Perrott,  127. 

Anne=Persehouse,  127. 

Benjamin,  126. 

Charles,  127. 

Edmond,  127. 

Elizabeth,  126. 

Elizabeth  (Osbaldeston),  126. 

Hugh,  126. 

James,  126. 

Jane  (Norreys),  126. 

John,  126,  127. 

Laurence,  127. 

Margery  (Mylner),  126. 

Mary  (Biddulph),  51,  126. 

Mary  (Kedwelley),  126. 

Muriel=Smart,  126. 

Ralph,  126. 

Randolph,  127. 

Richard,  126,  127. 

Temperance  (Osbaldeston),  127. 

Thomas,  7,  51,  126. 

William,  127,  128. 

(Neelson),  126. 

(Savage),  126. 

=Wardes  worth,  126. 

alias  Tetesworth,  7,  126. 
Rugeley,  24,  127,  127. 

Alice  (Claxson),  127. 

Anne,  128. 

Eleanor=Broughton,  61. 

Elizabeth  (Knottesford),  128. 

Elizabeth=Bagshaw,  41. 

Ellen,  128. 

Ellen  (Thirkell),  128. 

Francis,  128. 

George,  128. 

Henry,  128. 

Humfrey,  41,  61. 

James,  128. 

Jane,  128. 

Jane  (Pegge),  128. 

Jane=Rowley,  128. 

Margaret,  128. 

Margery  (Gierke),  128. 

Nicholas,  24. 

Penelope,  128. 

Ralph,  128. 

Rebecca  (Rugeley),  128. 

Rebecca=Rugeley,  128. 

Richard,  72,  128. 

Robert,  127. 

Rowland,  19,  128. 

Thirkell,  128. 

Thomas,  128. 

William,  6,  127,  128. 

(Harcourt),  96. 

Rumbald, =Goodyer,  135. 

Rushall,  103,  103. 

Alice=Bowles,  104. 


190 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Rushall — continued. 

Eleanor=Harpur,  105. 

James,  105. 

Nigel,  103. 

Osbert,  103. 

Richard,  103,  104. 

"William,  10-4,  105. 
Rycote,  Joan=Englefield,  78. 
Rydell,  Alice=Neville,  116. 

Huinfrey,  116. 

Sacheverell,  Catherine  (Fitzherbert),  76. 

Gertrude  (Hunt),  100. 

Henry,  76,  100. 

John,  76. 
St.  Andrew,  John,  146. 

Katheriue  (Welles),  146. 
St.  Clere,  93. 

Edith=Harcourt,  95. 

Thomas,  95. 
St.  Landa,  Agatha  (Wastneys),  158. 
Salisbury,  Margaret,  Countess  of,  132. 

Ursula,  daug.=Stafford,  132. 
Salt,  6,  27. 

Anne  (Strongman),  6. 

Elizabeth,  6. 

Elizabeth  (Stockley),  6,  104. 

Richard,  6,  104. 

Robert,  6. 

Thomas,  6. 
Salter,  John,  111,  112. 

Juliana,  112. 

J  uliana= Macclesfield,  111. 
Salway,  50. 

Cicely=Coningsby,  51. 

Humfrey,  51. 

John,  51. 

Joyce=Ashby,  51. 

Joyce=Wolseley,  51. 

Margaret=Biddulph,  51. 

Margery  (Erdeswike),  51. 

(Strelley),  51. 

Sandford,  Hugh,  59. 

Margaret=Broughton,  59. 
Sanson,  Edward,  151. 

Margery  (Whorwood),  151. 
Saunders,  Mary=JBagot,  40. 

William,  40. 
Savage,  Anne  (Stanley),  52. 

Christopher,  52. 

Helen=Endesore,  69. 

Roger,  126. 

(Stanley),  52. 

=Rudyerd,  126. 

Say,  William,  99. 
Sciiampion,  115. 

Felis=Moseley,  115. 

Robert,  115. 

William,  115. 
Scroope,  Elizabeth=Claroll,  76. 

Henry,  76. 


Scryvin, =Harcourt,  96. 

Sergeant,  Alice  (Bowyer),  54. 

Richard,  54. 
Seystons,  Anthony,  96. 

Elizabeth  (Harcourt),  96. 
Shareshill,  93. 

William,  71. 
Sheffield,  Anne=Ferne,  71. 

Robert,  71. 
Sheldon,  25, 153. 

Catherine=Trentham,  141. 

Claire= Wyrley,  154. 

John,  154. 

Mary=Fowler,  80. 

Ralph,  80,  141. 
Sheppard,  Margery=Moreton,  114. 
Shepy,  Agnes  (Comberford),  68. 

John,  68. 
Sherrard,  Anne  (Ashenhurst),  35. 

Thomas,  35. 
Shirewood,  James,  28. 
Shirley,  Anne,  38. 

Dorothy  (Giffard),  81,  82. 

Elizabeth  (Welshe),  38. 

Francis,  48,  81,  82. 

George,  48. 

Joan  (Bassett),  48. 

John,  48. 

Ralph,  38,  48. 
Shrewsbury,  George,  Earl  of,  12. 
Silvester,  Elizabeth  (Noel),  119. 

John,  99. 
Simely,  Jordan,  99. 

William,  99. 
Skerne,  Frances=Giffard,  82. 
Skevington,  John,  6,  20,  29. 
Skipwith,  John,  76. 

(Fitzwilliam),  76. 

Skrimshire,  129, 129. 

Alice  (Starkey),  129. 

Dorothy,  129. 

Dorothy  (Talbot),  129. 

Elizabeth,  129. 

Elizabeth  (Collyar),  129. 

Elizabeth  (Wyrley),  129,  154. 

Elizabeth=Collyar,  64. 

James,  4,  19,  64,  129. 

John,  66,  129. 

Lucy,  129. 

Margaret  (Poole),  129. 

Martha  (Fowler),  80. 

Maud=Marshall,  129. 

Richard,  129. 

Thomas,  4,  10,  17,  19,  80,  129,  154. 

William,  129. 

Winifred=Coyney,  66. 

(Swineshed),  129. 

(Talbot),  129. 

Slaide,  Elizabeth=Cholmelev,  63. 
Smart,  John,  126. 

Muriel  (Rudyerd),  126. 


INDEX. 


191 


Smith,  57,  130,  130. 
Anne  (Giffard),  83. 
Anne  (Paget),  122. 
Anne  (Staunton),  53,  58. 
Anne=Colclough,  130. 
Edward,  130. 

Eleanor  (Whorwood),  151. 
Eleanor=rLloyd,  130. 
Ellen  (Thickness),  139. 
George,  83. 
Isabel  (Neville),  53. 
Joan  (Adderley),  33. 
John,  130,  151. 
Margaret  (Dodd),  130. 
Margaret  (Picknian),  130. 
Margery  (Staunton),  56. 
Margery=Huddleston,  53,  56,  58. 
Ralph,  1 30. 
Richard,  130. 
Robert,  33. 
William,  53,  56,  58,  130. 

(Eitzherbert),  74. 

=Wright,  122. 

alias  Torbock,  Ralph,  10. 
Sneyd,  10,  27. 
George,  10. 
Jane=Trentham,  141. 
Ralph,  10,  18,  29. 
"William,  141. 

,  18. 

Snow,  Catherine  (Hawkes),  97. 

Nicholas,  97. 
Somerford,  131,  131. 

Anne=Roxeter,  131. 

Catherine=Granger,  131. 

Eleanor  (Pigott),  131. 

Elizabeth,  131. 

Erancis,  131. 

Geoffrey,  4,  18,  131. 

Henry,  72. 

Humfrey,  131. 

Jane  (Fowke),  131. 

John,  131. 

Margaret  (Haughton),  131. 

Margaret=Haughton,  131. 

Mary,  131. 

Richard,  131. 

Robert,  131. 

Susan,  131. 

Thomas,  131. 

Ursula,  131. 

William,  131. 

Winifred  (Glover),  131. 
Somersall,  74. 
Somerset,  Charles,  85,  89. 

Elizabeth=Gresley,  85,  89. 
Somerville,  87. 

Margery=Gresley,  86,  87. 

Matilda,  86,  87. 
Somery,  Maud=Erdington,  22. 
Sonde,  Jane=Noel,  117. 


Souche,  see  Zouche. 

Southampton,  William  Eitzwilliam,  Earl 

of,  77. 
Southwell,  Nazaretha  (Newton),  123. 

Thomas,  123. 
Sparks,  Mary=Leigh,  101. 
Specheley,  Eleanor=Moseley,  115. 

Robert,  115. 
Spencer,  Catherine=Leigh,  102. 

Elizabeth=Unwin,  143. 

Jane= Bruges,  92. 

Jtane=Harcourt,  92. 

John,  39,  92,  102. 

Mary=Aston,  39. 

Richard,  143. 
Spicer,  Elizabeth=Corbett,  65. 
Spilman,  25,  26. 

Henry,  25. 
Sprott,  Edward,  6,  15,  20,  137. 

=Salt,  6. 

=Stamford,  137. 

Spurstow,  John,  65. 

Margery=Coyney,  65. 
Stafford,  21,  22,  26,  27,  57,  87, 132, 132. 

Alice  (Corbett),  132. 

Dorothy,  132. 

Dorothy  (Stafford),  132. 

Dorothy=Stafford,  132. 

Earl  of,  21,  22. 

Edmund,  132. 

Edward,  132. 

Edward,  Duke  of  Buckingham,  132. 

Edward,  Lord,  4,  132. 

Eleanor  (Percy),  132. 

Elizabeth=Howard,  132. 

Henry,  Earl  of,  132. 

Humfrey,  22. 

Joan=Gresley,  86,  87. 

Katherine=Ralph,   Earl  of  West- 
morland, 132. 

Lord,  26. 

Mary,  132. 

Mary  (Stanley),  132. 

Mary=Neville,  132. 

Maud  (Camville),  51,  57. 

Maud=Arderne,  51,  57. 

Nicholas,  22,  132. 

Ralph,  132. 

Richard,  21,  51,  57. 

Robert,  47,  86,  87,  157,  158. 

Robert,  Lord,  132. 

Ursula,  132. 

Ursula  (dau.  of  Margaret,  Countess 
of  Salisbury),  132. 

William,  132. 

alias  Toni,  Robert,  156. 
Stafford  (Bagot),  27. 
Stamford,  133,  133,  135,  135. 

Agatha,  133. 

Alice,  134. 

Alice  (Palmer),  133. 


192 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Stamford — continued . 
Anne,  133. 

Anne  (Leveson),  108,  133. 
Anne=Witkers,  134. 
Catherine,  133. 
Catherine=Barnbury,  134. 
Catherine=Blount,  136. 
Charles,  133. 
Dorothy=Pidcock,  134. 
Edward,  133,  137. 
Eleanor  (Palmer),  134. 
Elizabeth,  137. 
Elizabeth  (Comberford),  137. 
Elizabeth=Atcombe,  134. 
Prances,  133. 
Prances=Haynes,  136. 
Prances=Repington,  134. 
Henry,  134. 
Jane  (Abington),  137. 
Jane=Knippe,  137. 
Joan=Cooke,  134. 
John,  133,  134,  136. 
Joyce=Babington,  136. 
Margaret,  133,  134. 
Margaret  (Gydney),  133. 
Margaret  (Moore),  136. 
Margaret=Astley,  134. 
Margery  (Blount),  136. 
Margery  (Pisher),  133. 
Margery=Whitgreave,  136,  147. 
Mary,  133. 
Ralph,  134. 

Robert,  6,  20,  108,  133,  136. 
Roger,  136. 

Thomas,  133,  134,  136,  137,  147. 
Ursula,  137. 

William,  6,  133,  134,  136,  137. 
Winifred,  134. 
■ (Henshaw),  133,  136. 

(Noel),  136. 

(Sprott),  137. 

Standley,  Thomas,  62. 

Ursula  (Cholmeley),  62. 
Stanhope,  Dorothy  (Trentham),  141. 

John,  141. 

Margaret  (Port),  82. 

Thomas,  82. 
Stanlawe,  Ralph,  21. 
Stanley,  56,  57. 

Alice,  52. 

Alice=Swinnerton,  52. 

Anne,  52. 

Anne=Gresley,  85,  89. 

Anne=Savage,  52. 

Catherine,  52. 

Dorothy=IIeveningham,  52. 

Dulcia  (Leigh),  52. 

Edward,  Earl  of  Derby,  132. 

Elizabeth,  52. 

Elizabeth=Hercy,  52. 

Elizabeth=Littleton,  109. 


Stanley — continued. 

Ellen  (Lee),  52. 

Humfrey,  52. 

Isabel,  52. 

Isabel  (Vernon),  52. 

Isabel=Moyle,  52. 

John,  52,  53,  56,  57,  58,  109. 

Margaret  (Gerard),  52. 

Margaret=Comberford,  52. 

Margaret=Staunton,  52,  53,  56,  58. 

Mary=Sta£ford,  132. 

Matilda,  52,  57. 

Maud  (Arderne),  52,  57. 

Maud=Perrers,  52. 

Maud=  Wolverston,  52. 

Roger,  52. 

Thomas,  52,  57,  85,  89. 

Walter,  6. 

William,  52. 

=Babington,  136. 

= Ferrers,  52. 

= Savage,  52. 

Stapleton,  21,  93. 

Elizabeth  (Moreton),  114. 

Joyce=Hoord,  82. 

Robert,  21. 

Thomas,  114. 
Starkey,  Alice=Skrhnshire,  129. 
Staunton,  37. 

Anne,  56. 

Anne=Smith,  53,  58. 

Margery,  52. 

Margery=Smith,  56. 

Margery  (Stanley),  52,  53,  56,  58. 

Margery=Welshe,  38. 

William,  52,  53,  56,  58. 
Sterton,  Richard,  28. 
Stockley,  6. 

Elizabeth=Salt,  6,  104. 

Joan=Greswold,  104. 

Margaret  (Hewet),  6,  104. 

Ralph,  6. 

Thomas,  6,  104. 

William,  6,  104. 
Stone,  Cassandra  (Powler),  80. 

John,  80. 

=Bowyer,  54. 

Stonilow,  William,  72. 
Story,  Anne  (Thickness),  139. 
Strange,  Margaret=Noel,  119. 

Strelley, =Salway,  51. 

Strethay,  24,  137,  137. 

Anne,  138. 

Anne  (Clapton),  137. 

Anne  (Cooke),  138. 

Anne  (Curzon),  137. 

Anne  (Kinnersley),  137. 

Edward,  137. 

Elizabeth,  137. 

Elizabeth  (Hopkins),  137. 

George,  138. 


INDEX. 


193 


Strethay — continued. 

John,  137,  138. 

Julian  (Wolseley),  137. 

Mary,  138. 

Philip,  6,  137,  138. 

Richard,  138. 

Rowland,  138. 

Thomas,  137. 

William,  24,  138. 
Strongman,  Anne=Salt,  6. 

Thomas,  6. 
Sutton,  23,  25,  155. 

Benet,  23. 

Catherine  (Bassett),  49. 

Dorothy=Wrottesley,  153. 

Edmund,  Lord  Dudley,  153. 

Edward,  Lord  Dudley,  148. 

Elizabeth  (Macclesfield),  111. 

Elizabeth=Whorwood,  148. 

Henry,  49. 

John,  Lord  Dudley,  153. 

Thomas,  25,  49. 

William,  49. 
Swettenham,  Elizabeth=Thickness,  138. 

Elizabeth=Tyrrell,  142. 

Lawrence,  142. 
Swinnerton,  23,  24,  30,  87. 

Alice  (Stanley),  52. 

Alice=Gresley,  86,  87. 

Cassandra  (Giffard),  81,  82. 

Edward,  10,  30. 

Elizabeth=Fitzherbert,  74. 

Elizabeth=Thirkell,  127. 

Ellen=Littleton,  109. 

Hugh,  10. 

Huinfrey,  74,  81,  82,  109. 
John,  24. 
Robert,  23. 
Roger,  86,  87. 
Thomas,  52. 

(Harcourt),  95. 

Swinshed, =Skrhnshire,  129. 

Swynfeild,  Richard,  6. 
Swynfen,  Richard,  6. 
Sydney,  Agnes  (Pakenham),  77. 
William,  77. 

Talbot,  Dorothy=Skrimshire,  129. 
Eleanor=Dudley,  129. 
Elizabeth=Cholmeley,  62. 
Elizabeth=Littleton,  109. 
Frances  (Giffard),  81,  82. 
Gilbert,  36,  109,  129. 
Gilbert,  Lord,  62. 
Humphrey,  129. 
Jane=Bowes,  82. 
John,  81,  82,  129. 
Katherine  (dau.  of  King  of   Por- 
tugal), 62. 
Margaret,  129. 
Mary=Astley,  36. 


Talbot — continued. 
Walter,  129. 

(Petre),  82. 

=Skrimshire,  129. 

Tamhorne,  6,  24. 

Thomas,  24,  71. 
Tansfield,  Robert,  75. 

Wilgefort  (Fitzherbert),  75. 
Taylour,  Eleanor  (Okeover),  122. 
John,  122. 
Matilda,  122. 
Tetesworth  alias  Rudyerd,  126. 

Thomas,  7. 
Tewe,  Thomas,  28. 
Thickbrome,  Humfrey,  6,  15,  20. 
Thicknes,  138,  1 38. 

Anne  (Barber),  139. 
Anne  (Osbaldeston),  139. 
Anne=Story,  139. 
Catherme=Chetwin,  139. 
Elizabeth,  139. 
Elizabeth  (Michell),  139. 
Elizabeth  (Swettenham),  138. 
Elizabeth=Mollins,  139. 
Ellen=Smith,  139. 
George,  139, 
Henry,  138. 

Isabel  (Mainwaring),  138. 
James,  138. 
John,  139. 
Lawrence,  138. 
Ralph,  10,  138,  139. 
Richard,  138. 
Robert,  138,  139. 
Rowland,  138. 
Susan,  139. 
Thomas,  139. 
Ursula=Garnett,  139. 
William,  138. 

(Ridgley),  138. 

=Tardley,  154. 

Thirkell,  Elizabeth  (Swinnerton),  127. 
Ellen=Rugeley,  128. 
James,  128. 
Jane  (Bagot),  128. 
Jane=Adderley,  128. 
Joan=Adderley,  33. 
John,  33,  127. 
Rose  (Minours),  127. 
Rowland,  127. 

(Poole),  127. 

Thornbury,  Edward,  7,  15. 
Thorpe,  Elizabeth=Broughton,  61. 
Throckmorton,  Margaret   (Whorwood), 
148. 
Robert,  82. 
Thomas,  148. 
Ursula=Giffard,  81,  82. 
Tikhill,  Joan  (Dethick),  44. 
Thomas,  44. 
Walter,  44. 

4 


191- 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Tilney, =Greenway,  92. 

=Harcourt,  92. 

Toll,  Elizabeth  (Moseley),  115. 

Richall,  115. 
Toly,  88. 

Joan=Gastneys,  86,  88,  162. 

John,  86,  88,  162. 
Tommehorn,  see  Tamhorn. 
Torbock,  Richard,  130. 

William,  130. 

alias  Smyth,  Ralph,  10. 
Touchet,  24. 

Alice  (Dryby),  49. 

John,  24. 

Robert,  49. 
Trentham,  139,  139. 

Catherine  (Marshall),  140. 

Catherine=Lane,  140. 

Dorothy=Stanhope,  141. 

Elizabeth  (Corbet),  140. 

Elizabeth=De  Vere,  141. 

Elizabeth=Hakluit,  140. 

Francis,  141. 

Jane  (Sneyd),  141. 

John,  140. 

Joyce=Minours,  140. 

Katherine  (Sheldon),  141. 

Margaret=Meverell,  140. 

Mary  (Ireland),  140. 

Richard,  140. 

Robert,  140. 

Thomas,  7,  19,  140,  141. 

William,  139. 

(Hoord),  140. 

(Horton),  139. 

=Eox,  140. 

=Hakluit,  140. 

=Husee,  140. 

-=Leighton,  140. 

=Middleton,  140. 

=Rogers,  140. 

Trubshaw, =Bowyer,  54. 

Trussell,  Anne=John,  Earl  of  Oxford, 
108. 

Elizabeth  (Burley),  108. 

John,  108. 
Tunsted,  Emma=Eoljambe,  78. 
Turner,  Joan=Cholmeley,  63. 
Twyford,  Jane=Ashenhurst,  35. 
Tyes,  116. 
Tyrrell,  141,  141. 

Cassandra,  142. 

Charles,  142. 

Edward,  142. 

Elizabeth  (Bodeley),  141. 

Elizabeth  (Swetenham),  142. 

Erancis,  142. 

George,  141. 

Humfrey,  111. 

Joyce  (Ingleton),  141. 

Margaret  (Aston),  142. 


Tyrrell — continued. 

Margery =Yorke,  1 12. 
Mary,  142. 
Mary  (Cooke),  141. 
Mary  (Lea),  142. 
Mary  (Montague),  141. 
Penelope,  142. 
Thomas,  7,  142. 
William,  141. 

Ufford,  24. 
Unwin,  142,  142. 

Anne  (Offeley),  143. 

Anne=Badley,  143. 

Custom  (Gledenhurst) ,  143. 

Edward,  143. 

Elizabeth  (Chaterley),  142. 

Elizabeth  (Spencer),  143. 

Ellen,  143. 

John,  143. 

Margaret  (Brereton),  143. 

Margery,  143. 

Mary,  143. 

Mary  (Barnes),  143. 

Mary  (Vernon),  143. 

Mary=Bourne,  143. 

Ralph,  143. 

Stephen,  143. 

Thomas,  10,  143. 

Ursula  (Billett),  143. 

William,  10,  142,  143. 

(Caddy),  143. 

(Jackson),  143. 

TJvedale,  Joyce=Whorwood,  149. 

William,  149. 

Venables,  53,  72. 

Agnes=Colyar,  64. 

Ellen=Knipersley,  54. 

Joan=Berington,  54. 

William,  54. 
Verdon,  24,  144,  144. 

Bertram,  144,  156. 

Henry,  50. 

John,  7l,  144. 

Lecelina,  144. 

Nicholas,  141. 

Normanuus,  144. 

Richard,  24. 

Robert,  144. 

Roheis,  144. 

Theobald,  Lord,  50. 

Thomas,  144. 
Vernon,  Benet=Gresle3r,  85,  89. 

Henry,  38,  85,  89. 

Hugh,  59. 

Isabel=Stanley,  52. 

Margaret=Bagot,  40. 

Mary=Aston,  38. 

Mary=Unwin,  143. 

Rirlkrd,  40,  52,  59. 


INDEX. 


195 


Vernon — contin  tied. 

Robert,  143. 

Widow,  18. 
Villiers,  Beatrix=Bagot,  39. 

John,  39. 
Vise,  144, 144. 

Andrew,  145. 

Anne  (Brougkton),  60. 

Anne=Milles,  145. 

Catherine  (Barker),  145. 

Cicely=Jervis,  145. 

Edmond,  145. 
.Edward,  145. 

Elizabeth=Clayton,  145. 

Ellen,  145. 

Humphrey,  145. 

Isabel,  145. 

Isabel  (Fitton),  145. 

James,  145. 

Joan,  145. 

John,  144, 145. 

Lettice,  145. 

Margery  (Brougkton),  144. 

Mary,  145. 

Roger,  144. 

Thomas,  60,  145. 

Ursula=Forster,  145. 

William,  10,  144,  145. 

(Bough),  144. 

(Howford),  144. 

"Wake,  Agnes  (Humett),  99. 

Baldwin,  99. 

Hugh,  159. 
Walcot,  25. 
Waldeskeff,  72. 
Walkden,  Anne  (Goodyer),  135. 

Sampson,  10. 

Thomas,  135J 
Walkelate,  John,  28. 
"Walker,  Catherine  (Harpur),  97. 

Dorothy  (Fowler),  80. 

Joan=Hawkes,  97. 

Richard,  97. 

Sampson,  10,  14,  80. 
"Walsall,      Catherine=Grobbere,     104, 
105. 

William,  104,  105. 
Walsh,  89. 

Margaret=Gresley,  86,  89. 

Thomas,  86,  89. 
Walsingham,    Catkerine=Greslev,    85, 
90. 

Thomas,  85,  90. 
Walter,  Robert  fitz,  156,  157. 
Walters,  25. 

Christopher,  25, 

William,  25. 
Ward,  Eleanor=Giffard,  82. 

Joan=Meynell,  44. 

Robert,  44. 


Wardesworth, (Rudyerd),  126. 

Waring,  11,  25. 

Nicholas,  25. 

Thomas,  11. 
Warner,  George,  7. 

Joan=Adderley,  33. 

Robert,  33. 
Warter,  25. 

William,  25. 
Warwick,  116. 

Ambrose,  Earl  of,  148. 

Richard  Beauchamp,  Earl  of,  116. 

Thomas  Beauchamp,  Earl  of,  162. 
Wastneys,  21,  85,  86. 

Agatka,  widow=St.  Landa,  158. 

Agnes,  158. 

Alice,  160. 

Alice  (Acton),  157. 

Ampkelis,  86,  157,  158,  159. 

Ampkelis  (Morley),  88. 

Bertricia,  88. 

Betrek,  86. 

Constance,  86,  88,  161. 

Edmond,  21,  156,  161. 

Elizabeth. = Cornwall,  161. 

Geoffrey.  157. 

Hardolpk,  86,  88,  156. 

Isabel  (Hay),  86,  88,  161. 

Isabel=Jortz,  162. 

Joan,  160. 

Joan  (Brett),  86,  88,  161. 

Joan  (Toly),  86,  88,  162. 

Joceus,  158. 

Jokn,  86,  88,  89,  160,  161,  162. 

Margaret,  86,  159. 

Matthania  (Colton),  158. 

Philip,  86,  88,  158,  159,  160,  161. 

Ravenhild,  86,  88. 

Reginald,  161. 

Robert,  86,  88,  157. 

Roger,  159. 

Stephen,  159,  160,  162. 

Thomas,  86,  88,  89,  161,  162. 

Tkomasin,  162. 

Tkomasin=Greslev,  86,  89,  156. 

William,  21,   71,  86,  88,  89,  157. 
158,  159,  160,  161,  162. 

Willielma,  161. 
Waterkouse,  Edward,  2. 
Waterton,  Jane=Everard,  70. 

Rickard,  70. 

Watton,  =Macclesfield,  111. 

Waynman,  Anne=Fitzkerbert,  73,  75. 

=Huddlestou,  53. 

Wedgwood,  7. 

Anne  (Bowyer),  54. 

Jokn,  7,  54. 
Welles,  145,  145,  146. 

Alice  (Aston^,  145. 

Anne  (Fitzkerbert),  73,  75,  146. 

Cecilia  (Aston),  145. 


196 


THE    VISITATION    OP    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


Welles — continued. 

Dorothy  (Okeover),  122,  146. 
DorothV=Duffield,  146. 
Elizabeth,  146. 
Humfrey,  122,  146. 
Joan  (Bonington),  145. 
John,  '73,  75,  122,  145,  146. 
Katherine  (Weston),  146. 
Katherine=St.  Andrew,  146. 
Margaret=Croche,  146. 
Mariam  (Cockes),  146. 
Mary=Chetwin,  146. 
Richard,  122,  146. 
Robert,  6, 146. 
Thomas,  145. 
Walter,  146. 
Welles  a?i'fl.sClerke,Joice=Grosvenor,90. 
Joan=Dudley,  90. 
John,  90. 
Welsh,  37. 

Elizabeth=Shirley,  38. 
Ellen=Littleton,  38,  108. 
Margery,  108. 
Margery  (Biron),  46. 
Margery  (Staunton),  38. 
Thomas,  38, 46,  108. 
Wentworth,  Thomas,  76. 
William,  76. 

(Fitzwilliam),  76. 

West,  Agnes=Bartram,  43. 
Westby,  Elizabeth  =Fitzherbert,  74. 

John,  74. 
Westcote,  4,  26. 

Joan  (Burley),  108. 
Mary=Pitzherbert,  74. 
Thomas,  108. 

(Littleton),  108. 

Westmorland,  Ralph,  Earl  of,  116. 

Ralph  Neville,  Earl  of,  132. 
Weston,  29. 

James,  28,  29,  146. 
Katherine=Welles,  146. 
Richard,  4. 
Richard,  Lord,  29. 
Symond,  29. 
Weyer,  William,  21. 
Whetenhale,  103. 
Whethill,  Dorothy=Wrottesley,  153. 

Richard,  153. 
Whitby,  Thomas,  28. 
White,  122. 

Anthony,  75. 

Elizabeth  (Fitzherbert),  75. 
George,  75. 
Henry,  82,  122. 
John,  75. 

]'l,ilippa=Giffard,  S3. 
Richard,  75. 
Sihilla=Okeover,  122. 
Whitehurst,  John,  8,  15. 
Whitgreave,  147,  147. 


Whitgreave — continued. 

Alice=Grosvenor,  91,  147. 

Anne,  148. 

Bridget=Astley,  147. 

Dorothy  (Noel),  118,  147. 

Edward,  147,  148. 

Elizabeth  (Norton),  148. 

Elizabeth=Bagnall,  147. 

Elizabeth=Cohnan,  147. 

Ellen=Babington,  147. 

George,  147. 

Henry,  148. 

Humfrey,  4,  136,  147,  148. 

Jane,  147. 

Jane  (Erdeswick),  147. 

Joyce  (Astley),  147. 

Lucretia=Moseley,  115,  147. 

Margaret,  147. 

Margery  (Stamford),  136,  147. 

Mary,  148. 

Mary  (Nelson),  148. 

Robert,  91,  136,  147,  148. 

Thomas,  10,  115,  118,  147. 

Walter,  147. 

William,  148. 

(Corbet),  136,  147. 

(Egerton),  147. 

Whitmore,  Jaue=Whorwood,  151. 
John,  14,  72. 

Prudence  (Noel),  119. 

Roger,  119. 

Thomas,  10. 
Whittington,  6. 

Mary=Littleton,  108. 

Thomas,  6. 
Whitwick,  Humfrey,  16. 

Walter,  28. 
Whorwood,  14-8. 14S,  150,150, 151,151. 

Anne  (Cockes),  151. 

Anne  (Eield),  149. 

Anne=Ambrose,  Earl  of  Warwick, 
148. 

Anthony,  71,  149,  150. 

Cassandra  (Grey),  148. 

Dorothy  (Bassett),  149,  150. 

Edward,  149,  150. 

Eleanor=Smithe,  151. 

Elizabeth,  150. 

Elizabeth  (Corbiu),  150. 

Elizabeth  (Sutton),  148. 

Elizabeth=Hazelwood,  151 . 

Emma,  149. 

Prances  (Chelsham),  149,  150. 

Prancis,  151. 

Gabriel,  149. 

Geoffrey,  149. 

Gerard,  149,  150. 

Henry,  151. 

Isabel  (Gravenor),  1 49. 

Jane,  149. 

Jane  (Whitmore),  151. 


INDEX. 


197 


Whorwood — continued. 

Jerome,  149,  150. 

Joan  (Rickthorne),  151 . 

John,  148,  149,  150,  151 . 

Joyce  (Grey),  148. 

Joyce  (Uvedale),  149. 

Joyce=Hollyinan,  151. 

Littleton,  149. 

Magdalen,  149. 

Magdalen  (Edwards),  149,  150. 

Margaret  (Brook),  148,  151. 

Margaret  (Dickenson),  149. 

Margaret=Throckmorton,  148. 

Margery=Sanson,  151. 

Nicholas,  151. 

Oliver,  149. 

Owen,  149. 

Philip,  151. 

Eichard,  149,  150,  151. 

Robert,  149,  150. 

Thomas,  11,  18,  148,  149,  150,  151. 

William,  11,  148,  149,  150,  151. 

(Brook),  151. 

(Corbin),  148. 

(Field),  150. 

(Jeloni),  149. 

(Hochkis),  151. 

William  fitz  Nigel,  86. 
Willoughby,  Catherine^ Astley,  36. 

Dorothy  (Paget),  123. 

Dorothy=Fitzherbert,  73. 

Henry,  73. 

Lord,  36. 

Thomas,  123. 
Wilmot,  Elizabeth  (Yardley),  155. 

Robert,  155. 
Wilson,  Anne  (Harcourt),  96. 

Benedict,  96. 
Windsor, =Harcourt,  92. 

=Purferey,  92. 

AVingfield,  Dorothy  (Pitzherbert),  75. 

John,  75. 
Wiunesbury,  109. 

Alice  =Littletou,  109. 

William,  109. 
Winston,  Jane  (Broughton),  60. 

Thomas,  60. 
Winter,  Catherine  (Gresley),  85,  89. 

Edward,  85,  89. 

Elizabeth,  widow,  129. 
Withers,  Anne  (Stamford),  134. 
Wolferston,  30. 

Humfrey,  6,  19,  30. 

Margaret  (Everard),  70. 

Margaret=Everard,  69. 

Maud  (Stanley),  52. 

Sampson,  70. 

Thomas,  52,  69. 
Wolriche,  Eve  (Cokenage),  43. 

John,  10,  14. 

Roger,  43. 


Wolseley,  10. 

Anne=Coyney,  66. 

Anthony,  66. 

Cnssandra  (Giffard),  83. 

Erasmus,  4,  10,  17,  83. 

Joyce  (Salway),  51. 

Julian=Strethay,  137. 

Ralph,  51. 
Wood,  Anne=Brett,  55. 

Isabella  (Hill)=Littleton,  109. 

Robert,  55. 
Woodhall,  Maud  (Everard),  70. 

Richard,  70. 
Woodhouse,  Nicholas,  27. 
Woodshaw,  Elizabeth  (Leveson),  107. 
Woodson,  John,  45. 

Margaret  (Cokayne),  45. 
Woodward,  John,  8,15. 
Wortley,  Elizabeth  (Pitzwilliam),  76. 

Thomas,  76. 

Wright, (Smith),  122. 

Wrottesley,  24,  27,  152,  152. 

Anne=Leveson,  107. 

Dorothy  (Sutton),  153. 

Dorothy=Whethill,  153. 

Edward,  153. 

Elizabeth,  153. 

Elizabeth  (Astley),  36,  153. 

Prances=  Brook,  153. 

Hugh,  24,  152,  153. 

Isabel  (Ardern),  152. 

Isabel  (Harcourt),  153. 

Jane  (Baron),  152. 

Jane  (Barrey),  152. 

Joan  (Bassett),  152. 

John,  18,  36,  152,  153. 

Margaret,  153. 

Mary  (Lea),  153. 

Richard,  107,  153. 

Thomas,  153. 

Thomasin  (Gresley),  152. 

Walter,  11,  107,  152,  153. 

(Harcourt),  95. 

Wyrley,  25,  27,  153,  153. 

Abraham,  154. 

Anne,  154. 

Anne  (Harpur),  153. 

Anne=Hogetts,  154. 

Avery   or   Audrey= Moseley,   115, 
154. 

Bridget=Breton,  154. 

Catherine,  154. 

Claire  (Sheldon),  154. 

Cornelius,  25,  153,  154. 

Dorothy,  154. 

Dorothy  (Harman),  154. 

Dorothy=Comberford,  154. 

Dorothy=Robsante,  154. 

Edward,  154. 

Elizabeth  (Cave),  154. 

Elizabeth=Skrimshire,  129,  154. 


198 


THE    VISITATION    OF    STAFFORDSHIRE,    A.D.    1583. 


"VVyrley — continued. 

Goodith  (Peyto),  154. 

Grace=Phillips,  154. 

Humfrey,  154. 

Joan  (Avenon),  154. 

John,  153,  154. 

Judith=Lea,  154. 

Margaret=Etou,  154. 

Mark,  154. 

Martha,  154. 

Richard,  154. 

Thomas,  6,  20,  115,  154. 

William,  115,  129,  154. 
Wyverston,  Alice=Noel,  117. 

Henry,  117. 

Yardley,  154,  155. 
Alice,  155. 

Anne=Meynell,  155. 
Elizabeth  (Eyrkes),  155. 
Elizabeth  (Moreton),  155. 
Elizabeth=Wilmot,  155. 
Ellen=Bostock,  155. 
Emilia  (Calcott),  155. 


Yardley — contin  ued. 
George,  155. 
John,  154,  155. 
Margaret  (Yardley),  155. 
Margaret=Broughton,  59. 
Margaret= Yardley,  155. 
Margery  (Lawton),  155. 
Oliver,  154,  155. 
Ralph,  155. 
Randoll,  155. 
Thomas,  155. 
William,  10,  155. 

(Marbury),  154. 

(Thicknes),  154. 

Young,  Elizabeth=Broughton,  59. 

John,  10,  14,  59. 
York,  Margery  (Tyrrell),  142. 
Thomas,  142. 
Widow=Harcourt,  91. 

Zouche,  103,  105. 

Elizabeth  (Grey),  49. 
Elizabeth=Bowett,  105. 
John,  49,  105. 


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ERRATA,  ETC. 

Page  xii,  note  *,  read  antecessorum. 

„  7,  note  %,  read/our  mullets.  These  bearings  were  granted  by  Robert  Cooke, 
Chrenceux,  to  John  Wedgwood,  by  patent  dated  20  Nov.  1576. 

„  9,  line  7.  Although  Sampson  Erdeswick  is  here  stated  to  have  appeared  and 
entered  his  descent,  I  do  not  think  any  such  descent  was  really  entered  in 
the  Visitation  book.  At  all  events  no  pedigree  is  to  be  found  in  the 
presumed  original  nor  in  the  Stukeley  MS.  Three  years  later  (viz.,  in 
1586),  Glover,  as  "Mareschall  to  Norroy  Kinge  of  Armes,"  compiled  and 
certified  a  long  and  elaborate  pedigree  of  the  Erdeswick  family  "ad 
instantiam  et  rogatu  Sampsonis  Erdeswike,  armigeri."  The  original 
vellum  roll,  signed  by  Glover,  was  presented  to  the  British  Museum 
Library  in  1791  by  Thomas  Blore,  of  Derby,  Attorney-at-Law  (Add.  MS. 
5410).  It  measures  several  yards  in  length,  and  the  arms  are  very  nicely 
emblazoned  in  colours.  What  appears  to  be  an  imperfect  copy  of  this, 
transcribed  from  an  old  vellum  roll  belonging  to  Colonel  Butler-Bowdon, 
is  printed  in  Dr.  Howard's  "Miscellanea,"  vol.  iii.,  p.  4.  Most  of  the 
(so-called)  copies  of  the  Visitation  (Hatherton  MS.,  and  Harl.  MSS.  1415, 
1570,  6128,  etc.)  give  an  Erdeswick  pedigree,  but  of  a  later  date  than  the 
Visitation. 

16,  James  Barnesley  must,  I  think,  be  an  error ;  for  the  then  head  of  the  family 
was  either  William  Barnesley  or  Thomas,  his  son.  The  latter  recorded  his 
descent  in  the  College  of  Arms  in  1597,  when  the  arms  and  crest  of  the 
Barnesleys  of  Barnesley  Hall,  Worcestershire  (from  whom  he  claimed 
descent),  were  allowed  to  him,  with  a  crescent  for  difference.  This 
pedigree  is  given  in  Lord  Hatherton's  MS.,  and  has  been  printed  by  Shaw 
in  his  second  volume,  p.  209.  But  Shaw  has,  by  a  stupid  and  inexcusable 
blunder,  made  Thomas  Barnesley  (who  was  aged  3  at  Dugdale's  Visitation 
in  1663)  the  grandson  of  the  aforesaid  Thomas,  whereas  he  was  really  his 
great-great-grandson;  being  son  of  William  (aged  44  in  1663),  whose 
father  Thomas  (ob.  circa  1636)  was  son  of  William,  the  "  son  and  heir  "  of 
the  Thomas  of  1597.     (Of.  orig.  Vis.  in  Coll.  Arm.) 

,,  19,  for  Ham  read  Ham. 

„  25,  Waringe.     For  falcons  heads  read  lapwing's. 

„  30,  James.  I  have  not  seen  any  other  authority  for  this  crest  of  James. 
That  usually  ascribed  to  the  family  is,  Out  of  a  mural  coronet  azure,  a 
demi-lion  regardant  or,  collared  of  the  first,  holding  between  the  paws  an 
escallop  sable. 

„  62,  for  Henryke  read  Kenryke. 

„  173,  Dudley.     Bead  also  Joan  (Welles  alias  Clerke),  90 ;  and  Thomas,  90. 


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